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Annotated night sky image showing Auriga and the Pleiades—Capella is the brightest star, towards top left With an average apparent magnitude of +0.08, Capella is the brightest object in the constellation Auriga , the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere (after Arcturus and Vega ), and ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Constellation: Auriga: Right ascension: 05 h 16 m 18.15000 s [1] Declination ... AE Aurigae Aladin image;
59 Aurigae, often abbreviated as 59 Aur, is a star in the constellation Auriga. Its baseline apparent magnitude is 6.1, [3] meaning it can just barely be seen with the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star. Based on parallax measurements, it is located about 483 light-years (148 parsecs) away from the Sun. [2]
Theta Aurigae (Latinized from θ Aurigae, abbreviated Theta Aur, θ Aur) is a binary star in the constellation of Auriga. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this system is about 166 light-years (51 parsecs). [1] The two components are designated Theta Aurigae A (also named Mahasim [10]) and B.
65 Aurigae is a binary star [7] system located 252 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.12. [2] The primary, designated component A, is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III. [3]
In Indian astronomy, it is known by the name Prajapati / p r ə ˈ dʒ ɑː p ə t i /, from the Sanskrit प्रजापति prajāpati "the Lord of Created Beings". [15] [16]In Chinese, 八穀 (Bā Gǔ), meaning Eight Kinds of Crops, refers to an asterism consisting of δ Aurigae, ξ Aurigae, 26 Camelopardalis, 14 Camelopardalis, 7 Camelopardalis, 9 Aurigae, 11 Camelopardalis and 31 ...
Xi Aurigae, Latinized from ξ Aurigae, is the Bayer designation for a single, [9] white-hued star in the northern constellation of Auriga. This star was once considered part of the constellation of Camelopardalis and held the Flamsteed designation 32 Camelopardalis. [10] It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.0. [2]