B-type star · blue-white star

72Rho Cet

456 lybrightness mag 4.88A0V

Also catalogued as HR 708 · HD 15130 · HIP 11345

10,475 K

temperature

4.88

apparent magnitude

190× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

456 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

190×

the Sun's light output

-0.85

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

72Rho CetB-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

77 Cet →39 ly apart
80 Cet →42 ly apart
HR 693 →45 ly apart
HR 587 →63 ly apart
HR 697 →64 ly apart
89Pi Cet →72 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 4.9To 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.