A-type star · white star
7 Tau
7 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,811 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1086 · HD 22091 · HIP 16664
8,811 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
62.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
62.86×
the Sun's light output
0.35
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.