35 Cancri is a star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located about 609 light-years from the Sun. It is a challenge to view with the naked eye even under ideal seeing conditions, having an apparent visual magnitude of +6.55. The star is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +35 km/s, and is a member of the Beehive Cluster.
This is a subgiant star with a stellar classification of G0 III. It is rotating at a relatively fast clip, giving it an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is 5% larger than the polar radius. 35 Cancri has a projected rotational velocity of 99 km/s. This rotation is expected to decrease significantly as the star expands into a giant. It has nine times the radius of the Sun, and is radiating 71 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of .
References