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public  Dumitreşti-Faţă, Rumania Dumitreşti-Faţă, Rumania  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/Bucharest
Sunrise: 5:29 
Transit: 13:16 
Sunset: 21:03
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42 Lyncis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 6:11 | Tran: 16:05 | Set: 1:58
Alt: 10.46°   Az: 41.61°   Direction: North-East

42 Lyncis is a hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Lynx.

42 Lyncis visual magnitude is 5.25. Because of its faintness, 42 Lyncis is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 42 Lyncis star
DSS2 image of 42 Lyncis. The red arrow shows the motion of 42 Lyncis during the next 10000 years (-2.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 39m 56s
+40° 07’ 25”
15h 54m 34s
01h 34m 31s

J2000

09h 38m 21s
+40° 14’ 22”

Galactic Coordinates

181.86°
48.31°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.25
Hypergiant

2.33
F0V
8011K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 42 Lyncis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 42 Lyncis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

42 Lyncis is distant 125.14 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

38.39
125.14
-3 km/s
-0.017 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO42958
SAO42958

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 42 Lyncis rise, transit and set times from Dumitreşti-Faţă, Rumania are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Bucharest):

Azimuth: 49.9°
Max altitude: 84.6°
Azimuth: 310.1°