F-type star · yellow-white star

Epsilon Cet

Epsilon Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 70.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,639 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 70 years ago.

70.1 lybrightness mag 4.83F5V

Also catalogued as HR 781 · HD 16620 · HIP 12390 · Gliese Gl 105.4A

6,639 K

temperature

4.83

apparent magnitude

4.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

70 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

4.70×

the Sun's light output

3.17

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.