K-type star · orange

72Tau Cnc

274 lybrightness mag 5.42G8III

Also catalogued as HR 3621 · HD 78235 · HIP 44818

5,029 K

temperature

5.42

apparent magnitude

41.65× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

274 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

41.65×

the Sun's light output

0.80

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

72Tau CncK-type

Sky regionCancerthis direction

StarAsellus Australisstar

Nearest stars

48Iot Cnc →23 ly apart
HR 3792 →27 ly apart
64Sig3Cnc →28 ly apart
HR 3707 →29 ly apart
HR 3686 →31 ly apart
Stribor →34 ly apart

Bright stars in Cancer

Tarf →mag 3.5
Asellus Australis →mag 3.9
48Iot Cnc →mag 4.0
Acubens →mag 4.3
Asellus Borealis →mag 4.7
Tegmine →mag 4.7
18Chi Cnc →mag 5.1
8 Cnc →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cancer

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.