A-type star · white star

98 Tau

98 Tau is a white star in the constellation Taurus 284 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,906 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 284 years ago.

284 lybrightness mag 5.79A0V

Also catalogued as HR 1590 · HD 31592 · HIP 23088

9,906 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
31.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
284 years
at light speed from Earth
1.72×
as hot as the Sun
31.97×
the Sun's light output
1.09
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.