K-type star · orange
79 Cnc
79 Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,023 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 368 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3640 · HD 78715 · HIP 45033
5,023 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
42.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
42.58×
the Sun's light output
0.78
absolute magnitude
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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.