F-type star · yellow-white star
111 Tau
111 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 46.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,196 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 47 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1780 · HD 35296 · HIP 25278 · Gliese Gl 202
6,196 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
1.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
47 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
1.80×
the Sun's light output
4.21
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.