B-type star · blue-white star
Asterope
Also catalogued as 21 Tau · HR 1151 · HD 23432 · HIP 17579
10,598 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
56.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
372 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
56.23×
the Sun's light output
0.47
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.