K-type star · orange
60 Cnc
60 Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 695 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,852 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 264× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 695 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3550 · HD 76351 · HIP 43851
3,852 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
264× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
695 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
264×
the Sun's light output
-1.20
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.