F-type star · yellow-white star

Chi Cet

Chi Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 75.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,258 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 76 years ago.

75.6 lybrightness mag 4.66F3III

Also catalogued as HR 531 · HD 11171 · HIP 8497 · Gliese GJ 9061A

7,258 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
6.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
76 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
6.40×
the Sun's light output
2.83
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.