B-type star · blue-white star
56 Tau
56 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,692 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 326 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1341 · HD 27309 · HIP 20186
11,692 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
63.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
326 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
63.68×
the Sun's light output
0.34
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.