A-type star · white star

Sigma² Tau

Sigma² Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.

156 lybrightness mag 4.67A5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 1479 · HD 29488 · HIP 21683

8,597 K

temperature

4.67

apparent magnitude

26.84× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

156 years

at light speed from Earth

1.49×

as hot as the Sun

26.84×

the Sun's light output

1.28

absolute magnitude

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Sigma² TauA-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To 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.