A-type star · white star

Xi Aur

Xi Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga 238 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,520 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 238 years ago.

238 lybrightness mag 4.96A2V

Also catalogued as HR 2029 · HD 39283 · HIP 27949

9,520 K
temperature
4.96
apparent magnitude
48.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
238 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
48.22×
the Sun's light output
0.64
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.