K-type star · orange

14 Tau

14 Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 410 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,757 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 410 years ago.

410 lybrightness mag 6.13G8III

Also catalogued as HR 1132 · HD 23183 · HIP 17408

4,757 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
48.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
410 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
48.53×
the Sun's light output
0.64
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.