K-type star · orange

Theta¹ Tau

Theta¹ Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 154 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,861 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 154 years ago.

154 lybrightness mag 3.84G7III

Also catalogued as HR 1411 · HD 28307 · HIP 20885

4,861 K
temperature
3.84
apparent magnitude
56.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
56.81×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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Theta¹ TauK-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.8To 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.