A-type star · white star

Meleph

587 lybrightness mag 6.29Am

Also catalogued as 41Eps Cnc · HR 3429 · HD 73731 · HIP 42556

8,403 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

85.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MelephA-type

Sky regionCancerthis direction

StarAsellus Australisstar

Nearest stars

39 Cnc →22 ly apart
HR 3264 →54 ly apart
HR 3577 →55 ly apart
32Ups2Cnc →57 ly apart
35 Cnc →76 ly apart
82Pi 2Cnc →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Cancer

Tarf →mag 3.5
Asellus Australis →mag 3.9
48Iot Cnc →mag 4.0
Acubens →mag 4.3
Asellus Borealis →mag 4.7
Tegmine →mag 4.7
18Chi Cnc →mag 5.1
8 Cnc →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.