Star profile
94 Ceti
What is 94 Ceti
94 Ceti lies remarkably close, just 73.7 light-years away, in the body of the Whale. It is an F-type star that hosts at least one giant planet discovered in the late nineties, one of the first extrasolar worlds confirmed around a Sun-like star. Its light reaches us delayed by barely three generations. A system with its own planet, an almost intimate neighbor in cosmic terms.
Where it is and when to see it
94 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 November, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 37° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 48° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 57° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 89° N.
It ranks no. 31 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 40° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 74 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 94 Ceti
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.07
- Distance
- 73.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 48.193° · Dec -1.196°
- Catalogue
- HIP 14954 · HD 19994
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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
- 56 Ceti4.92
- HIP 79994.98
- 3 Ceti4.99
- 48 Ceti5.11
- HIP 11585.13