K-type star · orange

Omega¹ Tau

Omega¹ Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 284 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,565 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 284 years ago.

284 lybrightness mag 5.51K2III

Also catalogued as HR 1283 · HD 26162 · HIP 19388

4,565 K
temperature
5.51
apparent magnitude
41.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
284 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
41.23×
the Sun's light output
0.81
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.