B-type star · blue-white star
93 Tau
93 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 417 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,938 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 417 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1484 · HD 29589 · HIP 21735
11,938 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
93.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
417 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
93.84×
the Sun's light output
-0.08
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.