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Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae , which is Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur . Capella is the sixth-brightest star in the night sky , and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega .
64 Aurigae is a single [7] star located 312 [1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. [6] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent magnitude of 5.87. [2]
Messier 38 or M38, also known as NGC 1912 or Starfish Cluster, [4] is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Auriga. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently found by Le Gentil in 1749. The open clusters M36 and M37, also discovered by Hodierna, are often grouped together with M38. [5]
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Auriga, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes
AB Aurigae is a young Herbig Ae star [3] in the Auriga constellation. It is located at a distance of approximately 509 light years from the Sun based on stellar parallax. [1] This pre-main-sequence star has a stellar classification of A0Ve, [4] matching an A-type main-sequence star with emission lines in the spectrum.
Eta Aurigae (η Aurigae, abbreviated Eta Aur, η Aur), officially named Haedus / ˈ h iː d ə s /, [10] [11] is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga.With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.18, [2] it is visible to the naked eye.
NGC 1931 is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. The nebula has been referred to as a "miniature version of the Orion Nebula", as it shares some of the same characteristics. It is a mixed emission-reflection nebula, and contains a smaller version of the Trapezium in its hot young star cluster centered in the emission ...
Psi 1 Aurigae (ψ 1 Aur, ψ 1 Aurigae) is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga.It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.91. [2] Based upon a measured annual parallax shift of 0.44 mas, [1] it is approximately 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) distant from the Earth.