K-type star · orange
21 Cet
Also catalogued as HR 255 · HD 5268 · HIP 4257
4,967 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
52.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
52.14×
the Sun's light output
0.56
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.