B-type star · blue-white star

Tau² Ser

Tau² Ser is a blue-white star in the constellation Serpens 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,625 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 6.22B9V

Also catalogued as HR 5770 · HD 138527 · HIP 76069

10,625 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
58.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
58.61×
the Sun's light output
0.43
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.