A-type star · white star

88 Tau

88 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,289 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.

156 lybrightness mag 4.25A5m

Also catalogued as HR 1458 · HD 29140 · HIP 21402

8,289 K

temperature

4.25

apparent magnitude

39.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

156 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

39.85×

the Sun's light output

0.85

absolute magnitude

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Taurus

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.