A-type star · white star

Rho Tau

Rho Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 158 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,760 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 158 years ago.

158 lybrightness mag 4.65A8V

Also catalogued as HR 1444 · HD 28910 · HIP 21273

7,760 K

temperature

4.65

apparent magnitude

28.31× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

158 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

28.31×

the Sun's light output

1.22

absolute magnitude

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Rho TauA-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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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.