K-type star · orange

99 Tau

99 Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,495 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 456 years ago.

456 lybrightness mag 5.79G8III:

Also catalogued as HR 1586 · HD 31553 · HIP 23068

4,495 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
82.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
456 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
82.04×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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99 TauK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.