K-type star · orange
Rho² Cnc
Rho² Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 487 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,743 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 157× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 487 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3540 · HD 76219 · HIP 43834
4,743 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
157× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
487 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
157×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
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.