K-type star · orange dwarf

Gakyid

264 lybrightness mag 8.23G5

Also catalogued as HD 73534 · HIP 42446

4,836 K

temperature

8.23

apparent magnitude

2.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

264 years

at light speed from Earth

0.84×

as hot as the Sun

2.92×

the Sun's light output

3.69

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

GakyidK-type

Sky regionCancerthis direction

StarHR 339415 ly

Star12 Cnc34 ly

Star33Eta Cnc51 ly

StarAsellus Australisstar

Star48Iot Cncstar

Nearest stars

HR 3394 →15 ly apart
12 Cnc →34 ly apart
33Eta Cnc →51 ly apart
Tarf →51 ly apart
30Ups1Cnc →52 ly apart
24 Cnc →55 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 8.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.