B-type star · blue-white star

Haedus

Haedus is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 243 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,449 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 259× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 243 years ago.

243 lybrightness mag 3.18B3V

Also catalogued as Eta 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
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HaedusB-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
Star59 Per21 ly
StarHD 3725029 ly
StarHR 173836 ly
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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.