G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

47 Tau

47 Tau is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Taurus 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,284 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.

332 lybrightness mag 4.84G5III

Also catalogued as HR 1311 · HD 26722 · HIP 19740

5,284 K
temperature
4.84
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.20
absolute magnitude
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47 TauG-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
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Bright stars in Taurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.