A-type star · white star

40 Aur

341 lybrightness mag 5.35A4m

Also catalogued as HR 2143 · HD 41357 · HIP 28946

7,788 K

temperature

5.35

apparent magnitude

68.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

341 years

at light speed from Earth

1.35×

as hot as the Sun

68.87×

the Sun's light output

0.26

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

40 AurA-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2115 →31 ly apart
HR 2096 →39 ly apart
HR 1850 →53 ly apart
55Psi4Aur →55 ly apart
HR 2272 →57 ly apart
HR 1796 →57 ly apart

Bright stars in Auriga

Menkalinan →mag 1.9
Mahasim →mag 2.6
Hassaleh →mag 2.7
Almaaz →mag 3.0
Haedus →mag 3.2
Saclateni →mag 3.7
33Del Aur →mag 3.7
32Nu Aur →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.