G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
36 Tau
36 Tau is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Taurus 1,132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,242 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 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 1,132 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1252 · HD 25555 · HIP 19009
5,242 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
687× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,132 years
at light speed from Earth
0.91×
as hot as the Sun
687×
the Sun's light output
-2.24
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.