K-type star · orange
16 Aur
16 Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,209 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 232 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1726 · HD 34334 · HIP 24727
4,209 K
temperature
4.54
apparent magnitude
67.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
67.48×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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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.