F-type star · yellow-white star

70 Cet

261 lybrightness mag 5.42F0Vn

Also catalogued as HR 691 · HD 14690 · HIP 11046

7,246 K

temperature

5.42

apparent magnitude

37.98× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

261 years

at light speed from Earth

1.26×

as hot as the Sun

37.98×

the Sun's light output

0.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

70 CetF-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 732 →23 ly apart
60 Cet →30 ly apart
HR 770 →46 ly apart
Menkar →51 ly apart
9Rho2Eri →56 ly apart
HR 766 →57 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 5.4To 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.