K-type star · orange

Tau² Ari

Tau² Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,249 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 5.10K3III

Also catalogued as HR 1015 · HD 20893 · HIP 15737

4,249 K

temperature

5.10

apparent magnitude

75.30× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

318 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

75.30×

the Sun's light output

0.16

absolute magnitude

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Tau² AriK-type

Sky regionAriesthis direction

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Bright stars in Aries

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.