B-type star · blue-white star

Alcyone

403 lybrightness mag 2.85B7III

Also catalogued as 25Eta Tau · HR 1165 · HD 23630 · HIP 17702

11,343 K
temperature
2.85
apparent magnitude
964× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
403 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
964×
the Sun's light output
-2.61
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.