A-type star · white star

Menkalinan

81.1 lybrightness mag 1.90A2V

Also catalogued as 34Bet Aur · HR 2088 · HD 40183 · HIP 28360 · Gliese GJ 3375

9,256 K

temperature

1.90

apparent magnitude

93.58× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

81 years

at light speed from Earth

1.60×

as hot as the Sun

93.58×

the Sun's light output

-0.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MenkalinanA-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 40650 →13 ly apart
HR 2141 →14 ly apart
9 Aur →17 ly apart
HD 33632 →17 ly apart
22 Lyn →25 ly apart
56Psi5Aur →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Auriga

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
35Pi Aur →mag 4.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 1.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.