60 Cancri is a star in the zodiac constellation Cancer, located about 850 light years away from the Sun.
It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.44.
[2] 60 Cancri is situated near the ecliptic, so it is subject to the occasional occultation by the Moon.
[1] This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III,[3] indicating it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved off the main sequence.
[5] The star is radiating 670[2] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,150 K.[5]