A-type star · white star
79 Tau
79 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 159 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,049 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 159 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1414 · HD 28355 · HIP 20901
8,049 K
temperature
5.02
apparent magnitude
20.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
159 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
20.40×
the Sun's light output
1.58
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.