A-type star · white star
97 Tau
97 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 167 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,056 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 167 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1547 · HD 30780 · HIP 22565
8,056 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
21.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
167 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
21.26×
the Sun's light output
1.53
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.