B-type star · blue-white star
114 Tau
114 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 625 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,293 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 357× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 625 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1810 · HD 35708 · HIP 25539
12,293 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
357× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
625 years
at light speed from Earth
2.13×
as hot as the Sun
357×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
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.