K-type star · orange

HR 2542

HR 2542 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 956 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,862 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 290× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 956 years ago.

956 lybrightness mag 6.03K3III:

Also catalogued as HD 50056 · HIP 33044

3,862 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
290× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
956 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
290×
the Sun's light output
-1.31
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.