B-type star · blue-white star

Psi9Aur

1,259 lybrightness mag 5.85B8III

Also catalogued as HR 2568 · HD 50658 · HIP 33377

11,231 K

temperature

5.85

apparent magnitude

594× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,259 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

594×

the Sun's light output

-2.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Psi9AurB-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2645 →100 ly apart
66 Aur →170 ly apart
52Psi3Aur →200 ly apart
36 Aur →230 ly apart
HD 59721 →250 ly apart
HR 2557 →250 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.