A-type star · white star

11 Tau

11 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 478 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,057 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 478 years ago.

478 lybrightness mag 6.11A2IV

Also catalogued as HR 1118 · HD 22805 · HIP 17181

9,057 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
67.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
478 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
67.17×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.