K-type star · orange
Tau Aur
Tau Aur is an orange in the constellation Auriga 207 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,869 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 207 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1995 · HD 38656 · HIP 27483
4,869 K
temperature
4.51
apparent magnitude
55.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
207 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
55.00×
the Sun's light output
0.50
absolute magnitude
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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.