B-type star · blue-white star
Celaeno
Celaeno is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 377 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,570 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 377 years ago.
Also catalogued as 16 Tau · HR 1140 · HD 23288 · HIP 17489
10,570 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
76.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
377 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
76.91×
the Sun's light output
0.14
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.