F-type star · yellow-white star

130 Tau

130 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 1,782 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,456 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,687× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,782 years ago.

1,782 lybrightness mag 5.47F0III

Also catalogued as HR 1990 · HD 38558 · HIP 27338

7,456 K

temperature

5.47

apparent magnitude

1,687× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,782 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

1,687×

the Sun's light output

-3.22

absolute magnitude

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130 TauF-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.