K-type star · orange

Phi Tau

Phi Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 321 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,409 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 321 years ago.

321 lybrightness mag 4.97K1III

Also catalogued as HR 1348 · HD 27382 · HIP 20250

4,409 K
temperature
4.97
apparent magnitude
86.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
321 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
86.78×
the Sun's light output
0.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.