K-type star · orange
62 Aur
62 Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 836 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,274 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 224× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 836 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2600 · HD 51440 · HIP 33614
4,274 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
224× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
836 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
224×
the Sun's light output
-1.02
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.