B-type star · blue-white star
49 Cnc
49 Cnc is a blue-white star in the constellation Cancer 423 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,076 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 423 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3465 · HD 74521 · HIP 42917
11,076 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
82.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
423 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
82.04×
the Sun's light output
0.07
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.