- Stars with a name
- Piautos
Piautos
λ Cancri
Piautos is a very hot blue star, in the constellation Cancer. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1569.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it is best seen in the evening sky in January, February, March, April, and December.
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 5.92.
What it’s like
It gives off 73 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 10,600 degrees.
It is 457.4 light years away: 4328 trillion kilometres.