K-type star · orange

Psi⁶ Aur

Psi⁶ Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 360 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,449 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 360 years ago.

360 lybrightness mag 5.22K1III

Also catalogued as HR 2487 · HD 48781 · HIP 32562

4,449 K

temperature

5.22

apparent magnitude

86.86× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

360 years

at light speed from Earth

0.77×

as hot as the Sun

86.86×

the Sun's light output

0.00

absolute magnitude

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Psi⁶ AurK-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

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Bright stars in Auriga

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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.