A-type star · white star

105 Tau

105 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 1,080 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,419 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 441× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,080 years ago.

1,080 lybrightness mag 5.84B2Ve

Also catalogued as HR 1660 · HD 32991 · HIP 23883

8,419 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
441× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,080 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
441×
the Sun's light output
-1.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Taurus

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.