F-type star · yellow-white star
94 Cet
94 Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 73.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,067 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 74 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 962 · HD 19994 · HIP 14954 · Gliese Gl 128A
6,067 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
4.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
74 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
4.16×
the Sun's light output
3.30
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.