K-type star · orange

17Phi1Cet

234 lybrightness mag 4.77K0IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 194 · HD 4188 · HIP 3455

4,748 K

temperature

4.77

apparent magnitude

55.26× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0IIIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

234 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

55.26×

the Sun's light output

0.49

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

17Phi1CetK-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 31 →37 ly apart
44 Cet →42 ly apart
HR 227 →46 ly apart
8Iot Cet →50 ly apart
HR 190 →50 ly apart
27 Psc →54 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.