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.^[1] The primary, designated component A, is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.^[3] It is 3.31^[4] billion years old and has expanded to 13 times the Sun's radius after exhausting the hydrogen at its core.^[2] Its companion, component B, is a magnitude 11.7 star located at an angular separation of 11.4″ from the primary, as of 2008.^[7] The pair are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 22 km/s.^[1]

It was also known to be part of a much bigger constellation named Telescopium Herschelii before it was unrecognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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• HR 2793
• CCDM J07220+3646
• Image 65 Aurigae