B-type star · blue-white star
22 Aur
22 Aur is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 530 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 530 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1768 · HD 35076 · HIP 25192
10,653 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
60.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
530 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
60.59×
the Sun's light output
0.39
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.