K-type star · orange

Phi Aur

Phi Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 453 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,950 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 453 years ago.

453 lybrightness mag 5.08K4IIIp

Also catalogued as HR 1805 · HD 35620 · HIP 25541

3,950 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
453 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
absolute magnitude
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Phi AurK-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 185411 ly
StarSigma Aur28 ly
StarHR 173242 ly
StarMenkalinanstar
StarMahasimstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Auriga
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.