G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
75 Cnc
75 Cnc is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cancer 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,764 K, and it shines at 3.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 101 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3626 · HD 78418 · HIP 44892 · Gliese GJ 9286
5,764 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
3.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
101 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
3.49×
the Sun's light output
3.49
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.