B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Cnc
Nu Cnc is a blue-white star in the constellation Cancer 392 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,667 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 392 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3595 · HD 77350 · HIP 44405
10,667 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
83.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
392 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
83.33×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.