K-type star · orange

Pi Tau

Pi Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 417 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,794 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 189× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 417 years ago.

417 lybrightness mag 4.69G8III

Also catalogued as HR 1396 · HD 28100 · HIP 20732

4,794 K
temperature
4.69
apparent magnitude
189× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
417 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
189×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
absolute magnitude
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Pi TauK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.