Star profile
77 Ceti
What is 77 Ceti
77 Ceti is an orange giant 459 light-years away, in the body of the Whale. Its warm tone places it among the mature stars, those that have left the quiet pace of youth and swell toward the end. Cetus is a vast, dim constellation, ideal for picking out colour nuances when the sky is dark enough. Its light set out in the mid-sixteenth century, at the peak of the European Renaissance.
Where it is and when to see it
77 Ceti lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 77 Ceti
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 458.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 38.678° · Dec -7.859°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12002 · HD 16074
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- 30 Ceti5.71
- 84 Ceti5.72
- 12 Ceti5.72
- HIP 72765.75
- HIP 79165.75