F-type star · yellow-white star
44 Tau
44 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 205 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,147 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 205 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1287 · HD 26322 · HIP 19513
7,147 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
24.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
205 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
24.08×
the Sun's light output
1.40
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.