A-type star · white star
Nu Tau
Nu Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 117 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,743 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 117 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1251 · HD 25490 · HIP 18907
9,743 K
temperature
3.91
apparent magnitude
30.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
117 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
30.56×
the Sun's light output
1.14
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.