B-type star · blue-white star
5 Cnc
5 Cnc is a blue-white star in the constellation Cancer 540 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,435 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 95.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 540 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3134 · HD 65873 · HIP 39236
10,435 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
95.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
540 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
95.94×
the Sun's light output
-0.10
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.