B-type star · blue-white star
6 Tau
6 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 350 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 350 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1079 · HD 21933 · HIP 16511
11,122 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
49.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
350 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
49.89×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.