G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
42 Cap
42 Cap is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Capricornus 108 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,699 K, and it shines at 8.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 108 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8283 · HD 206301 · HIP 107095
5,699 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
8.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
108 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
8.30×
the Sun's light output
2.55
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.