A-type star · white star
18 Aur
18 Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga 224 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,753 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 224 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1734 · HD 34499 · HIP 24832
7,753 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
10.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
224 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
10.38×
the Sun's light output
2.31
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.