HD 82741 is a single star in the northern constellation of Lynx. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.81. The distance to HD 82741 is 223 light years, as determined from its annual parallax shift of . It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1 km/s.
At the age of 2.74 billion years, this is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of , where the suffix notation indicates an underabundance of iron in its atmosphere. It belongs to a sub-category of giants called the red clump, indicating that it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through the fusion of helium at its core. With 1.62 times the mass of the Sun, it has expanded to 11 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 58.9 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,809 K.
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G-type giants
Horizontal-branch stars
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