F-type star · yellow-white star

32 Tau

32 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 138 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,187 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 138 years ago.

138 lybrightness mag 5.62F2IV

Also catalogued as HR 1218 · HD 24740 · HIP 18471

7,187 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
8.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
138 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
8.82×
the Sun's light output
2.49
absolute magnitude
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32 TauF-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.