B-type star · blue-white star

Tau For

Tau For is a blue-white star in the constellation Fornax 384 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,475 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 384 years ago.

384 lybrightness mag 6.01A0V

Also catalogued as HR 1114 · HD 22789 · HIP 17007

10,475 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
47.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
384 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
47.64×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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Tau ForB-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.