K-type star · orange
Secunda Hyadum
Secunda Hyadum is an orange in the constellation Taurus 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,784 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta¹ Tau · HR 1373 · HD 27697 · HIP 20455
4,784 K
temperature
3.77
apparent magnitude
61.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
156 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
61.55×
the Sun's light output
0.38
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.