A-type star · white star
41 Aur
41 Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga 334 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,028 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 334 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2175 · HD 42126 · HIP 29388
9,028 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
44.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
334 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
44.59×
the Sun's light output
0.73
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.