K-type star · orange

42 Psc

42 Psc is an orange in the constellation Pisces 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,260 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 502 years ago.

502 lybrightness mag 6.25K3III

Also catalogued as HR 86 · HD 1796 · HIP 1772

4,260 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
65.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
502 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
65.16×
the Sun's light output
0.32
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pisces

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.