B-type star · blue-white star

Rho Aur

Rho Aur is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,085 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 529 years ago.

529 lybrightness mag 5.22B5V

Also catalogued as HR 1749 · HD 34759 · HIP 25048

12,085 K
temperature
5.22
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
529 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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Rho AurB-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.