A-type star · white star
83 Tau
83 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 147 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,705 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 147 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1430 · HD 28556 · HIP 21036
7,705 K
temperature
5.40
apparent magnitude
12.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
147 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
12.31×
the Sun's light output
2.12
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.