G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Tau Cet
Tau Cet is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cetus 11.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,511 K, and it shines at 0.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 12 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 509 · HD 10700 · HIP 8102 · Gliese Gl 71
5,511 K
temperature
3.49
apparent magnitude
0.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
12 years
at light speed from Earth
0.95×
as hot as the Sun
0.47×
the Sun's light output
5.68
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.