hip-6748

Its story

47 Ceti is a yellow-white F-type star 122 light-years away, set against the diffuse back of the Whale. Its surface, slightly hotter than the Sun's, lends it a clean tone and a modest naked-eye glimmer at magnitude 5.51. The light settling on the eye tonight set out around the start of the 20th century, when spectroscopy was beginning to sort stars by their chemical fingerprints.