K-type star · orange

Psi⁴ Aur

Psi⁴ Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 324 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,825 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 324 years ago.

324 lybrightness mag 5.04K5III

Also catalogued as HR 2459 · HD 47914 · HIP 32173

3,825 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
82.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
324 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
82.64×
the Sun's light output
0.06
absolute magnitude
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Psi⁴ AurK-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 253223 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Auriga
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.