K-type star · orange

HR 942

HR 942 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,681 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 6.28G9III

Also catalogued as HD 19525 · HIP 14607

4,681 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
33.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
33.76×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.