★ Star HD 70642 | Nearby stars catalogue

Yellow star HD 70642 is located 95.6 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class G6VCN+0.5 C, that has 104 of solar mass. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

HD 70642

Yellow star (spectral class G6VCN+0.5 C)

Mass: 1.04 M Sun

Size: 0.97 R Sun

Temperature: 5732 K | 0.99 T Sun

Age: 1.9 billions years | 0.41 Sun

Luminosity: 0.917 L Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 7.18

1 exoplanet:

HD 70642 b

556.3 M⊕

3.23 AU

2068 days

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about HD 70642

      Nearby star HD 70642 can be found in southern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia.  HD 70642 is about 100 % of the size of Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 5732 K (5459 °C), which is about 99 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
CD−39°4247, GJ 304, Gliese 304, HIC 40952, HIP 40952, SAO 199126, LTT 3116, GC 11411, 2MASS J08212815-3942199, TIC 183356952, TYC 7665-696-1, WISEA J082127.93-394217.3

External sources

Sources

Simbad database (HD 70642)

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