A-type star · white star

48 Cet

48 Cet is a white star in the constellation Cetus 233 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,789 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 233 years ago.

233 lybrightness mag 5.11A0V

Also catalogued as HR 433 · HD 9132 · HIP 6960

9,789 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
40.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
233 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
40.11×
the Sun's light output
0.84
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.