B-type star · blue-white star

Haedus

243 lybrightness mag 3.18B3V

Also catalogued as 10Eta Aur · HR 1641 · HD 32630 · HIP 23767

12,449 K

temperature

3.18

apparent magnitude

259× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

243 years

at light speed from Earth

2.16×

as hot as the Sun

259×

the Sun's light output

-1.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HaedusB-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

59 Per →21 ly apart
HD 37250 →29 ly apart
HR 1738 →36 ly apart
16 Aur →36 ly apart
18 Aur →37 ly apart
32Nu Aur →39 ly apart

Bright stars in Auriga

Menkalinan →mag 1.9
Mahasim →mag 2.6
Hassaleh →mag 2.7
Almaaz →mag 3.0
Saclateni →mag 3.7
33Del Aur →mag 3.7
32Nu Aur →mag 4.0
35Pi Aur →mag 4.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Auriga

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.