A-type star · white star
Menkalinan
Menkalinan is a white star in the constellation Auriga 81.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,256 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 81 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Aur · HR 2088 · HD 40183 · HIP 28360 · Gliese GJ 3375
9,256 K
temperature
1.90
apparent magnitude
93.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
81 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
93.58×
the Sun's light output
-0.08
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.