B-type star · blue-white star

Pleione

382 lybrightness mag 5.05B7p

Also catalogued as 28 Tau · HR 1180 · HD 23862 · HIP 17851

11,279 K

temperature

5.05

apparent magnitude

114× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

382 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

114×

the Sun's light output

-0.29

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

PleioneB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Atlas →0.72 ly apart
Merope →4.9 ly apart
Maia →5.5 ly apart
22 Tau →5.7 ly apart
HR 1172 →6.4 ly apart
Celaeno →8.3 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 5.0To 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.