K-type star · orange

HR 42

HR 42 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 1,294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,723 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 577× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,294 years ago.

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
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HR 42K-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHD 1879290 ly
StarHR 9058330 ly
StarHD 2268340 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
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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.