B-type star · blue-white star
41 Tau
41 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 420 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,993 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 123× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 420 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1268 · HD 25823 · HIP 19171
11,993 K
temperature
5.18
apparent magnitude
123× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
420 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
123×
the Sun's light output
-0.37
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.