K-type star · orange
96 Tau
96 Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 1,087 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,718 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 354× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,087 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1537 · HD 30605 · HIP 22441
3,718 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
354× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,087 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
354×
the Sun's light output
-1.52
absolute magnitude
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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.