B-type star · blue-white star

53 Tau

53 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 270 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,076 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 270 years ago.

270 lybrightness mag 5.50B9IV

Also catalogued as HR 1339 · HD 27295 · HIP 20171

11,076 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
37.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
270 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
37.67×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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53 TauB-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Taurus

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.