B-type star · blue-white star

73Xi 2Cet

193 lybrightness mag 4.30B9III

Also catalogued as HR 718 · HD 15318 · HIP 11484

10,838 K

temperature

4.30

apparent magnitude

58.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

193 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

58.18×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

73Xi 2CetB-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

111Xi Psc →36 ly apart
HR 816 →37 ly apart
HD 10262 →41 ly apart
26 Ari →46 ly apart
HR 875 →47 ly apart
HR 770 →49 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 4.3To 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.