K-type star · orange

61 Cet

61 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,132 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 5.96G5V...

Also catalogued as HR 610 · HD 12641 · HIP 9631

5,132 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
44.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
44.30×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.