K-type star · orange

HR 42

1,294 lybrightness mag 5.94K5III

Also catalogued as HD 942 · HIP 1096

3,723 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

577× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,294 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

577×

the Sun's light output

-2.05

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 42K-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 1879 →290 ly apart
HR 9058 →330 ly apart
HD 2268 →340 ly apart
HR 8869 →360 ly apart
HR 268 →390 ly apart
HR 8719 →410 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.