K-type star · orange

Baten Kaitos

235 lybrightness mag 3.74K2III

Also catalogued as 55Zet Cet · HR 539 · HD 11353 · HIP 8645

4,438 K

temperature

3.74

apparent magnitude

144× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

235 years

at light speed from Earth

0.77×

as hot as the Sun

144×

the Sun's light output

-0.55

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Baten KaitosK-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

44 Cet →32 ly apart
HR 406 →44 ly apart
HR 710 →45 ly apart
49 Cet →48 ly apart
48 Cet →51 ly apart
HR 473 →51 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
59Ups Cet →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.7To 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.