F-type star · yellow-white star
63 Tau
63 Tau is a yellow-white star in the constellation Taurus 163 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,399 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 163 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1376 · HD 27749 · HIP 20484
7,399 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
12.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
163 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
12.03×
the Sun's light output
2.15
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.