M-type star · red

Tania Australis

Tania Australis is a red in the constellation Ursa Major 230 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,645 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 259× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 230 years ago.

230 lybrightness mag 3.06M0III SB

Also catalogued as Mu UMa · HR 4069 · HD 89758 · HIP 50801

3,645 K

temperature

3.06

apparent magnitude

259× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M0III SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

230 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

259×

the Sun's light output

-1.19

absolute magnitude

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Tania AustralisM-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.