B-type star · blue-white star
134 Tau
134 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 249 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,061 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 249 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2010 · HD 38899 · HIP 27511
11,061 K
temperature
4.89
apparent magnitude
56.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
249 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
56.08×
the Sun's light output
0.48
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.