K-type star · orange

2 Aur

2 Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 602 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,928 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 360× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 602 years ago.

602 lybrightness mag 4.79K3III

Also catalogued as HR 1551 · HD 30834 · HIP 22678

3,928 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
360× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
602 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
360×
the Sun's light output
-1.54
absolute magnitude
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2 AurK-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 150048 ly
StarHR 162670 ly
StarHR 179474 ly
StarMenkalinanstar
StarMahasimstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Auriga
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.