K-type star · orange dwarf

Copernicus

40.3 lybrightness mag 5.96G8V

Also catalogued as 55Rho1Cnc · HR 3522 · HD 75732 · HIP 43587 · Gliese Gl 324A

5,081 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

0.55× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

40 years

at light speed from Earth

0.88×

as hot as the Sun

0.55×

the Sun's light output

5.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

CopernicusK-type

Sky regionCancerthis direction

StarAsellus Australisstar

Nearest stars

11 LMi →8.5 ly apart
Pollux →12 ly apart
20 LMi →15 ly apart
HR 3579 →16 ly apart
Talitha →17 ly apart
Gliese Gl 332B →17 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.