B-type star · blue-white star

Elnath

134 lybrightness mag 1.65B7III

Also catalogued as 112Bet Tau · HR 1791 · HD 35497 · HIP 25428

12,103 K

temperature

1.65

apparent magnitude

321× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

134 years

at light speed from Earth

2.10×

as hot as the Sun

321×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

ElnathB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1575 →19 ly apart
HD 35681 →26 ly apart
HR 2122 →31 ly apart
11Mu Aur →32 ly apart
1 Gem →33 ly apart
56 Per →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

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
Atlas →mag 3.6
Prima Hyadum →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 1.6To 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.