Kaewkosin
Kaewkosin is a red star, among the coolest, in the constellation Cancer.
How far
76 light years
The light you see from Kaewkosin tonight set off about 76 years ago. Everything we know about it is that much out of date.
How bright
0.01 of a Sun
It gives out one 180th of the Sun's visible light. It is too faint to see without a telescope.
Astronomers put its brightness in our sky at magnitude 12.33. Smaller numbers are brighter, and the faintest stars the eye can see are about 6.
How hot
Not known here. The catalogue this site uses has no colour measurement for this star, and colour is what the temperature is worked out from. Its spectral type says it is a red star, among the coolest.
Its names
- Its own name
- Kaewkosin
- Spectral type
- m
Where this comes from
Distance, brightness, colour and spectral type are from the HYG star database, version 4.4, by David Nash, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Its distances are those measured by the Hipparcos satellite. The words are written for this site.
To read more: Colour and brightness, How stars live and die, Measuring distance.