G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

42 Cet

42 Cet is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cetus 328 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,834 K, and it shines at 39.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 328 years ago.

328 lybrightness mag 5.87A7V...

Also catalogued as HR 385 · HD 8036 · HIP 6226

5,834 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
39.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
328 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
39.63×
the Sun's light output
0.85
absolute magnitude
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42 CetG-type
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Cetus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.