K-type star · orange

HR 1742

759 lybrightness mag 6.48K2III

Also catalogued as HD 34587 · HIP 24520

4,283 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

121× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

758 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

121×

the Sun's light output

-0.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1742K-type

Sky regionPictorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1667 →77 ly apart
HR 2044 →90 ly apart
HR 1498 →94 ly apart
HR 2114 →120 ly apart
Kap Pic →130 ly apart
HR 1727 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Pictor

Alp Pic →mag 3.2
Gam Pic →mag 4.5
Del Pic →mag 4.7
Eta2Pic →mag 5.0
Lam Pic →mag 5.3
Eta1Pic →mag 5.4
Zet Pic →mag 5.4
Iot Pic →mag 5.6

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pictor

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.