B-type star · blue-white star
22 Tau
22 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 380 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 380 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1152 · HD 23441 · HIP 17588
10,382 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
31.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
380 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
31.71×
the Sun's light output
1.10
absolute magnitude
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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.