F-type star · yellow-white star

Tau⁶ Eri

Tau⁶ Eri is a yellow-white star in the constellation Eridanus 57.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,704 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 57 years ago.

57.5 lybrightness mag 4.22F3/F5V

Also catalogued as HR 1173 · HD 23754 · HIP 17651 · Gliese Gl 155

6,704 K

temperature

4.22

apparent magnitude

5.55× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3/F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

57 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

5.55×

the Sun's light output

2.99

absolute magnitude

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Tau⁶ EriF-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.