K-type star · orange
Diphda
Diphda is an orange in the constellation Cetus 96.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,698 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 96 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Cet · HR 188 · HD 4128 · HIP 3419 · Gliese Gl 31
4,698 K
temperature
2.04
apparent magnitude
116× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
96 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
116×
the Sun's light output
-0.31
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.