A-type star · white star
64 Aur
64 Aur is a white star in the constellation Auriga 278 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,313 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 278 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2753 · HD 56221 · HIP 35341
8,313 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
28.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
278 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
28.42×
the Sun's light output
1.22
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.