F-type star · yellow-white star

HD 40650

HD 40650 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 93.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,100 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 93 years ago.

93.3 lybrightness mag 6.49F5

Also catalogued as HIP 28634

6,100 K

temperature

6.49

apparent magnitude

1.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

93 years

at light speed from Earth

1.06×

as hot as the Sun

1.81×

the Sun's light output

4.21

absolute magnitude

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HD 40650F-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

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Bright stars in Auriga

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.