Star profile
Psi 9 Aurigae
Hot blue starWhat is Psi 9 Aurigae
Psi-9 Aurigae is a hot blue type B star burning at the astonishing distance of some 1,260 light-years, within the figure of the Charioteer. That the naked eye still catches it means its light is truly colossal —thousands of times the Sun's—. It rides through a sky strewn with open clusters and bright nebulae, deep within the Perseus Arm, one of our galaxy's great spiral structures.
Where it is and when to see it
Psi 9 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 January: 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 Psi 9 Aurigae
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.85
- Distance
- 1259.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 104.134° · Dec 46.274°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33377 · HD 50658
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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 294515.78
- HIP 311735.82
- HIP 224075.84
- 64 Aurigae5.87
- 47 Aurigae5.88