A-type star · white star
Omicron¹ Cnc
Omicron¹ Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,580 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3561 · HD 76543 · HIP 43970
8,580 K
temperature
5.22
apparent magnitude
14.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
149 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
14.87×
the Sun's light output
1.92
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.