A-type star · white star

42Phi And

717 lybrightness mag 4.26B7III

Also catalogued as HR 335 · HD 6811 · HIP 5434

9,978 K

temperature

4.26

apparent magnitude

832× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

717 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

832×

the Sun's light output

-2.45

absolute magnitude

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42Phi AndA-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 372 →38 ly apart
HR 256 →53 ly apart
HR 287 →55 ly apart
22Omi Cas →55 ly apart
Phi Per →82 ly apart
HR 355 →88 ly apart

Bright stars in Andromeda

Alpheratz →mag 2.1
Mirach →mag 2.1
Almach →mag 2.1
31Del And →mag 3.3
Nembus →mag 3.6
Alfarasalkamil →mag 3.6
Udkadua →mag 3.8
37Mu And →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.