Mahasim

Mahasim marks Auriga as a binary. Look for it while tracing Auriga on a dark night. The IAU proper name sits beside older Bayer and catalog labels on modern atlases.

Wikipedia

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID
HIP 28380
Distance
50.76 pc · 165.6 ly
Parallax
19.70 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G)
2.61
Color (BP-RP)
-
Radius
unknown
RA · Dec
89.93° · 37.21°