M-type star · red

80 Cet

80 Cet is a red in the constellation Cetus 465 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,639 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 109× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 465 years ago.

465 lybrightness mag 5.53M0III

Also catalogued as HR 759 · HD 16212 · HIP 12107

3,639 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
109× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
465 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
109×
the Sun's light output
-0.24
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.