K-type star · orange dwarf
38 Aur
Also catalogued as HR 2119 · HD 40801 · HIP 28677
4,794 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
13.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
213 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
13.70×
the Sun's light output
2.01
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.