A-type star · white star
Omicron² Cnc
Omicron² Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 150 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,094 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 150 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3565 · HD 76582 · HIP 44001
8,094 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
9.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
150 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
9.91×
the Sun's light output
2.36
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.