K-type star · orange

78Nu Cet

340 lybrightness mag 4.87G8III

Also catalogued as HR 754 · HD 16161 · HIP 12093

5,051 K

temperature

4.87

apparent magnitude

107× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

340 years

at light speed from Earth

0.88×

as hot as the Sun

107×

the Sun's light output

-0.22

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

78Nu CetK-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 775 →17 ly apart
HR 725 →26 ly apart
HR 766 →46 ly apart
HR 751 →50 ly apart
HR 942 →59 ly apart
65Xi 1Cet →60 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

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.