K-type star · orange
53 Cnc
53 Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 886 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,717 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 203× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 886 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3521 · HD 75716 · HIP 43575
3,717 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
203× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
886 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
203×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
absolute magnitude
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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.