M-type star · red

6 Aur

1,098 lybrightness mag 6.46K4Iab:

Also catalogued as HR 1602 · HD 31780 · HIP 23268

3,545 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
257× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4Iab:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,098 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
257×
the Sun's light output
-1.18
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.