A-type star · white star

Chamukuy

Chamukuy is a white star in the constellation Taurus 150 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,329 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 150 years ago.

150 lybrightness mag 3.40A7III

Also catalogued as Theta² Tau · HR 1412 · HD 28319 · HIP 20894

8,329 K

temperature

3.40

apparent magnitude

80.84× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

150 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

80.84×

the Sun's light output

0.08

absolute magnitude

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ChamukuyA-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.4To 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.