B-type star · blue-white star
36 Aur
36 Aur is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 1,157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 570× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,157 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2101 · HD 40394 · HIP 28499
10,213 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
570× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5p SiFe
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,157 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
570×
the Sun's light output
-2.04
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.