Your Eyes In Space Open the simulation

Star · G0III

35 Cnc

35 Cnc is a giant star of spectral type G0III in the constellation Cancer, 609.2 light-years from the Sun.

Other namesHIP 42133
ConstellationCancer
Distance609.2 light-years (186.8 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.55
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 0.19
Spectral typeG0III
Surface temperature5,670 K
Luminosity79.4 L☉
Radius9.24 R☉
Mass3.17 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)8h 35m 19.4s
Declination (J2000)+19° 35′ 24″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)48.5 km/s

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 6.55); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 70° S. North of latitude 70° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in January, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1417. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 11 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around 35 Cnc, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 11.19, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Capricornus. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

Open in the simulation

Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.