Epsilon Ceti

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Epsilon Ceti (ε Ceti) is a star located in the constellation Cetus. Epsilon Ceti is also known as 83 Cet, HD 16620. Epsilon Ceti is a spectroscopic binary star.

Epsilon Ceti A and B are both F5V stars with an effective temperature of 6400K. The total system has apparent visual magnitude of +4.84, and an absolute visual magnitude of +2.67, with each component having visual magnitude of 5.6. The system is located 88.02 ly from the Sun.

Epsilon Ceti is located at right ascension 02h 39m 33.80s and declination -11deg 52 arcmin 20 arcsec.

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