F-type star · yellow-white star
47 Cet
47 Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 122 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,331 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 122 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 421 · HD 8829 · HIP 6748
7,331 K
temperature
5.51
apparent magnitude
7.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
122 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
7.64×
the Sun's light output
2.64
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.