K-type star · orange

37 Tau

37 Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 187 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,594 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 187 years ago.

187 lybrightness mag 4.36K0III

Also catalogued as HR 1256 · HD 25604 · HIP 19038

4,594 K
temperature
4.36
apparent magnitude
51.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
187 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
51.71×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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37 TauK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To 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.