B-type star · blue-white star
Mahasim
Mahasim is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 166 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,295 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 196× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 166 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta Aur · HR 2095 · HD 40312 · HIP 28380
11,295 K
temperature
2.65
apparent magnitude
196× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
166 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
196×
the Sun's light output
-0.88
absolute magnitude
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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.