M-type star · red

HD 42787

595 lybrightness mag 6.45M...

Also catalogued as HIP 29509

3,620 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
76.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
595 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
76.28×
the Sun's light output
0.14
absolute magnitude
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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.