A-type star · white star
8 Cnc
8 Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,906 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3163 · HD 66664 · HIP 39567
9,906 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
33.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.72×
as hot as the Sun
33.14×
the Sun's light output
1.05
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.