K-type star · orange

42 Aqr

42 Aqr is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 587 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,447 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 206× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 587 years ago.

587 lybrightness mag 5.34K1III

Also catalogued as HR 8496 · HD 211361 · HIP 110000

4,447 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
206× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
587 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
206×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
absolute magnitude
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42 AqrK-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquarius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.