B-type star · blue-white star

Merope

380 lybrightness mag 4.14B6IV

Also catalogued as 23 Tau · HR 1156 · HD 23480 · HIP 17608

10,809 K

temperature

4.14

apparent magnitude

261× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

380 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

261×

the Sun's light output

-1.19

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MeropeB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

22 Tau →3.9 ly apart
Maia →4.3 ly apart
Celaeno →4.5 ly apart
Pleione →4.9 ly apart
Atlas →4.9 ly apart
HR 1172 →7.5 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

Elnath →mag 1.6
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To 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.