B-type star · blue-white star

Rho Cet

Rho Cet is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,475 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 456 years ago.

456 lybrightness mag 4.88A0V

Also catalogued as HR 708 · HD 15130 · HIP 11345

10,475 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
456 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.