A-type star · white star
Kaffaljidhma
Kaffaljidhma is a white star in the constellation Cetus 79.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,096 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 80 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Cet · HR 804 · HD 16970 · HIP 12706 · Gliese Gl 106.1A
9,096 K
temperature
3.47
apparent magnitude
21.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
80 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
21.24×
the Sun's light output
1.53
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.