Star in the constellation Cetus
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       Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
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Phi3 Ceti is a solitary, orange-hued star in the equatorial constellation of Cetus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.31. Based upon an annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth, it is located approximately 530 light years from the Sun, give or take 20 light years. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −25.5 km/s.
This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III. It has about 1.4 times the mass and 44 times the radius of the Sun. The star radiates 441 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,974 K.
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