K-type star · orange

Prima Hyadum

Prima Hyadum is an orange in the constellation Taurus 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,789 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.

162 lybrightness mag 3.65G8III

Also catalogued as Gamma Tau · HR 1346 · HD 27371 · HIP 20205

4,789 K
temperature
3.65
apparent magnitude
74.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
74.06×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.