A-type star · white star
33 Tau
33 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 681 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,754 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 144× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 681 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1221 · HD 24769 · HIP 18485
9,754 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
144× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
681 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
144×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
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.