A-type star · white star
71 Tau
71 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,712 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 160 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1394 · HD 28052 · HIP 20713
7,712 K
temperature
4.48
apparent magnitude
33.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
160 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
33.88×
the Sun's light output
1.02
absolute magnitude
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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.