A-type star · white star

Beta² Tuc

Beta² Tuc is a white star in the constellation Tucana 168 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 168 years ago.

168 lybrightness mag 4.53A2V

Also catalogued as HR 127 · HD 2885 · HIP 2487

8,597 K
temperature
4.53
apparent magnitude
35.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
168 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
35.81×
the Sun's light output
0.96
absolute magnitude
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Beta² TucA-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarEta Tuc18 ly
StarBeta³ Tuc20 ly
StarHD 21849729 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.