A-type star · white star

48Iot Cnc

279 lybrightness mag 6.58G8II...

Also catalogued as HR 3474 · HD 74738 · HIP 43100

9,531 K

temperature

6.58

apparent magnitude

14.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8II...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

279 years

at light speed from Earth

1.65×

as hot as the Sun

14.87×

the Sun's light output

1.92

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

48Iot CncA-type

Sky regionCancerthis direction

StarAsellus Australisstar

Nearest stars

23Phi2Cnc →23 ly apart
72Tau Cnc →23 ly apart
64Sig3Cnc →28 ly apart
24 Cnc →35 ly apart
Stribor →38 ly apart
30Ups1Cnc →39 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 6.6To 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.