F-type star · yellow-white star
59 Aur
59 Aur is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,848 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 491 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2539 · HD 50018 · HIP 33041
6,848 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
71.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
491 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
71.71×
the Sun's light output
0.21
absolute magnitude
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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.