M-type star · red

HR 2742

HR 2742 is a red in the constellation Camelopardalis 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,604 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 220× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 4.92M4IIIa

Also catalogued as HD 55966 · HIP 36547

3,604 K
temperature
4.92
apparent magnitude
220× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4IIIa
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
220×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 2742M-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 310826 ly
StarHR 260958 ly
StarHR 412166 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.