M-type star · red

HR 2742

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2742M-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3108 →26 ly apart
HR 2609 →58 ly apart
HR 4121 →66 ly apart
HD 69054 →74 ly apart
HR 3719 →81 ly apart
HR 3847 →87 ly apart

Bright stars in Camelopardalis

10Bet Cam →mag 4.0
9Alp Cam →mag 4.3
7 Cam →mag 4.4
Gam Cam →mag 4.6
3 Cam →mag 5.1
43 Cam →mag 5.1
42 Cam →mag 5.1
31 Cam →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

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.