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Its story

42 Lyncis shines within a constellation well named the Lynx, since it takes lynx-like sight to pick out its stars, nearly all of them faint. It is a white-yellow F-class star about one hundred and twenty-two light-years away, relatively close within a sky otherwise filled with distant lights. The constellation itself was introduced by Hevelius in the seventeenth century to fill a gap between Auriga and Ursa Major.