G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HD 160042

404 lybrightness mag 6.19G6III/IV

Also catalogued as HIP 86352

5,201 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
44.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
404 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
44.59×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Can you see it tonight?
BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.