M-type star · red

119 Tau

119 Tau is a red in the constellation Taurus 1,792 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,108 K, about 0.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,920× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,792 years ago.

1,792 lybrightness mag 4.32M2Ib

Also catalogued as HR 1845 · HD 36389 · HIP 25945

3,108 K
temperature
4.32
apparent magnitude
4,920× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,792 years
at light speed from Earth
0.54×
as hot as the Sun
4,920×
the Sun's light output
-4.38
absolute magnitude
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119 TauM-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.