B-type star · blue-white star
Psi⁸ Aur
Psi⁸ Aur is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 748 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,709 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 748 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2547 · HD 50204 · HIP 33133
10,709 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5sp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
748 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
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.