F-type star · yellow-white star
76 Tau
76 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 188 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,307 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 188 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1408 · HD 28294 · HIP 20873
7,307 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
12.60× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
188 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
12.60×
the Sun's light output
2.10
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.