B-type star · blue-white star

Atlas

382 lybrightness mag 3.62B8III

Also catalogued as 27 Tau · HR 1178 · HD 23850 · HIP 17847

11,092 K

temperature

3.62

apparent magnitude

427× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

382 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

427×

the Sun's light output

-1.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AtlasB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Pleione →0.72 ly apart
Merope →4.9 ly apart
Maia →5.6 ly apart
HR 1172 →5.7 ly apart
22 Tau →6.1 ly apart
Celaeno →8.6 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

Elnath →mag 1.6
Alcyone →mag 2.9
Tianguan →mag 3.0
Chamukuy →mag 3.4
35Lam Tau →mag 3.4
Ain →mag 3.5
1Omi Tau →mag 3.6
Prima Hyadum →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To 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.