K-type star · orange

77 Cet

77 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 459 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,962 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 459 years ago.

459 lybrightness mag 5.74K4III

Also catalogued as HR 752 · HD 16074 · HIP 12002

3,962 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
87.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
459 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
87.18×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.