K-type star · orange

Upsilon Cet

Upsilon Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,714 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 178× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 293 years ago.

293 lybrightness mag 3.99K5/M0III

Also catalogued as HR 585 · HD 12274 · HIP 9347

3,714 K
temperature
3.99
apparent magnitude
178× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5/M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
178×
the Sun's light output
-0.78
absolute magnitude
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Upsilon CetK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.