K-type star · orange
65 Aur
65 Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 236 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,554 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 236 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2793 · HD 57264 · HIP 35710
4,554 K
temperature
5.12
apparent magnitude
40.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
236 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
40.81×
the Sun's light output
0.82
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.