A-type star · white star

42 Lyn

123 lybrightness mag 5.28F0V

Also catalogued as HR 3829 · HD 83287 · HIP 47300

7,989 K

temperature

5.28

apparent magnitude

9.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

123 years

at light speed from Earth

1.38×

as hot as the Sun

9.51×

the Sun's light output

2.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

42 LynA-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

Nearest stars

38 Lyn →11 ly apart
HD 89221 →17 ly apart
HR 3701 →19 ly apart
Tania Borealis →23 ly apart
HR 4132 →23 ly apart
HR 4191 →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Lynx

40Alp Lyn →mag 3.1
38 Lyn →mag 3.8
Alsciaukat →mag 4.3
15 Lyn →mag 4.3
2 Lyn →mag 4.4
21 Lyn →mag 4.6
27 Lyn →mag 4.8
12 Lyn →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.