B-type star · blue-white star
Electra
Electra is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 405 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,658 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 436× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 405 years ago.
Also catalogued as 17 Tau · HR 1142 · HD 23302 · HIP 17499
11,658 K
temperature
3.72
apparent magnitude
436× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
405 years
at light speed from Earth
2.02×
as hot as the Sun
436×
the Sun's light output
-1.75
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.