A-type star · white star
Delta² Tau
Delta² Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,537 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 161 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1380 · HD 27819 · HIP 20542
8,537 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
25.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
161 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
25.63×
the Sun's light output
1.33
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.