F-type star · yellow-white star

Rho Tuc

Rho Tuc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Tucana 134 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,322 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 134 years ago.

134 lybrightness mag 5.38F6V

Also catalogued as HR 187 · HD 4089 · HIP 3330

6,322 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
10.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
134 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
10.34×
the Sun's light output
2.31
absolute magnitude
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Rho TucF-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarBeta¹ Tuc6.6 ly
StarBeta³ Tuc16 ly
StarEmiw20 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.