F-type star · yellow-white star
48 Tau
48 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 148 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,880 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 148 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1319 · HD 26911 · HIP 19877
6,880 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
5.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5Vvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
148 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
5.38×
the Sun's light output
3.02
absolute magnitude
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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.