F-type star · yellow-white star
Taiyi
Taiyi is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 95.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,443 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 96 years ago.
Also catalogued as 8 Dra · HR 4916 · HD 112429 · HIP 63076
7,443 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
6.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5n
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
96 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
6.05×
the Sun's light output
2.90
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.