G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
39 Tau
39 Tau is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Taurus 55.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,890 K, and it shines at 1.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 55 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1262 · HD 25680 · HIP 19076 · Gliese Gl 160
5,890 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
1.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
55 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
1.09×
the Sun's light output
4.76
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.