K-type star · orange

62 Aur

836 lybrightness mag 6.02K2III

Also catalogued as HR 2600 · HD 51440 · HIP 33614

4,274 K

temperature

6.02

apparent magnitude

224× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

836 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

224×

the Sun's light output

-1.02

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

62 AurK-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

61Psi8Aur →90 ly apart
HR 2471 →99 ly apart
HD 49364 →110 ly apart
HR 2915 →120 ly apart
HR 2542 →130 ly apart
HR 2675 →130 ly apart

Bright stars in Auriga

Menkalinan →mag 1.9
Mahasim →mag 2.6
Hassaleh →mag 2.7
Almaaz →mag 3.0
Haedus →mag 3.2
Saclateni →mag 3.7
33Del Aur →mag 3.7
32Nu Aur →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.