Star · White · Auriga

Menkalinan

34 Aur · HIP 28360

Above the horizon all nightHighest after dark 05:17 · southeast · 80°

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Where is Menkalinan?

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Look southeast, about 80° up at 05:17 in Auriga.

From London tonight, Menkalinan is above the horizon all night. It’s highest just before dawn, around 05:17, in the southeast at 80°.

At magnitude 1.9 it is one of the brighter points in the sky, easy to see by eye when it’s clear.

This is position and timing only: clouds, haze and light pollution aren’t included.

Menkalinan looks white to the eye. Its spectral type is A1IV-Vp: white subgiant (hotter than the Sun).

A white point of light, visible even from many towns when it’s clear.

Brighter, and its white color is easier to see.

Still a point of light: no amateur telescope shows a star’s surface.

What you’re likely to see, not what a space telescope photographs. General guidance from catalog brightness and size, not a forecast for tonight.

Menkalinan is a star in Auriga, shining at magnitude 1.9. Its spectral type, A1IV-Vp, marks it as: white subgiant (hotter than the Sun).

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