B-type star · blue-white star
Lambda Cet
Lambda Cet is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,726 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 355× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 576 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 896 · HD 18604 · HIP 13954
11,726 K
temperature
4.71
apparent magnitude
355× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
576 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
355×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
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.