B-type star · blue-white star

Delta Cet

Delta Cet is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 650 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,881 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 806× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 650 years ago.

650 lybrightness mag 4.08B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 779 · HD 16582 · HIP 12387

13,881 K
temperature
4.08
apparent magnitude
806× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
650 years
at light speed from Earth
2.40×
as hot as the Sun
806×
the Sun's light output
-2.42
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To 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.