A-type star · white star
Chi Aur
Chi Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga. Its surface is about 7,585 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 113,762,729× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 4.71B5Iab
Also catalogued as HR 1843 · HD 36371 · HIP 25984
7,585 K
temperature
4.71
apparent magnitude
113,762,729× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
113,762,729×
the Sun's light output
-15.29
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.