M-type star · red

117 Tau

117 Tau is a red in the constellation Taurus 613 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,602 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 613 years ago.

613 lybrightness mag 5.77M1III

Also catalogued as HR 1816 · HD 35802 · HIP 25583

3,602 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
613 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
absolute magnitude
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117 TauM-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Taurus

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.