G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
9 Cet
9 Cet is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cetus 68.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,746 K, and it shines at 1.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 68 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 88 · HD 1835 · HIP 1803 · Gliese Gl 17.3
5,746 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
1.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
68 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
1.05×
the Sun's light output
4.79
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.