F-type star · yellow-white star

Psi⁵ Aur

Psi⁵ Aur is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 54.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,067 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 55 years ago.

54.5 lybrightness mag 5.24G0V

Also catalogued as HR 2483 · HD 48682 · HIP 32480 · Gliese Gl 245

6,067 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

1.95× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

55 years

at light speed from Earth

1.05×

as hot as the Sun

1.95×

the Sun's light output

4.12

absolute magnitude

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Psi⁵ AurF-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.