A-type star · white star
Omega Aur
Omega Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,686 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1592 · HD 31647 · HIP 23179
9,686 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
25.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
25.37×
the Sun's light output
1.34
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.