Upsilon1 Ceti

Upsilon¹ Ceti (U Ceti), is a star located in the constellation Cetus. Upsilon¹ Ceti is also known as 59 Cet, and HD 12274.

Upsilon¹ Ceti is an K7III Giant star with an effective temperature of 3900 Kelvin. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +4.0, and an absolute visual magnitude of -0.835. It is located 300 light years from the Sun, and has a mass of 1.4 solar masses, and is estimated to be 50 solar radii, as recorded through direct angular measurement.

Upsilon¹ has the following equatorial coordinates:

• Right ascension: 02^h 00^m 00.305^s
• Dec: −21° 04′ 40.23″.

References

• http://www.alcyone.de/cgi-bin/search.pl?object=HR0585
• http://server3.wikisky.org/starview?object_type=1&object_id=714
• http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=59+Ceti&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id
• http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/upscet.html