Capella
A yellow star whose light comes mostly from two giant stars orbiting close together, high on winter nights in the north.
Tonight from
Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.08, the 6th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 43 light years
- Light it gives out
- About 140 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Auriga, where it is α Aurigae
- Catalogue number
- HIP 24608
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources