K-type star · orange
Sigma³ Cnc
Sigma³ Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 296 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,962 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 296 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3575 · HD 76813 · HIP 44154
4,962 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
57.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
296 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
57.92×
the Sun's light output
0.44
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.