F-type star · yellow-white star
61 Cnc
61 Cnc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 181 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,509 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 181 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3563 · HD 76572 · HIP 44031
6,509 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
8.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
181 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
8.49×
the Sun's light output
2.53
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.