Star profile
39 Aurigae
What is 39 Aurigae
39 Aurigae is an F-type star 162 light-years away, within the Charioteer, the pentagonal figure mythology ties to the inventor of the four-horse chariot. Auriga presides over the winter sky with brilliant Capella, and though 39 Aurigae sits at its periphery, it shares the same landscape crossed by the luminous band of the Milky Way. Its light departed in the 1860s, during the American Civil War.
Where it is and when to see it
39 Aurigae lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 39 Aurigae
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 162.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.264° · Dec 42.982°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28823 · HD 41074
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Other stars in Auriga
Auriga has 76 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CapellaAlpha Aurigae0.08
- HYG 1183600.96
- MenkalinanBeta Aurigae1.90
- HIP 334155.88
- HIP 279735.90
- HIP 283435.90
- HIP 254715.92
- HIP 252915.94