K-type star · orange

Xi¹ Cet

Xi¹ Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,056 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 217× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 4.36G8II:

Also catalogued as HR 649 · HD 13611 · HIP 10324

5,056 K
temperature
4.36
apparent magnitude
217× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
217×
the Sun's light output
-0.99
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To 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.