A-type star · white star

Meleph

Meleph is a white star in the constellation Cancer 587 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 587 years ago.

587 lybrightness mag 6.29Am

Also catalogued as Epsilon Cnc · HR 3429 · HD 73731 · HIP 42556

8,403 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
85.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
587 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
85.90×
the Sun's light output
0.01
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cancer

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.