A-type star · white star
Acubens
Acubens is a white star in the constellation Cancer 188 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,650 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 188 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha Cnc · HR 3572 · HD 76756 · HIP 44066
8,650 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
57.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
188 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
57.39×
the Sun's light output
0.45
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.