F-type star · yellow-white star
Tau Scl
Tau Scl is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sculptor 226 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,246 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 226 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 462 · HD 9906 · HIP 7463
7,246 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
22.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
226 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
22.18×
the Sun's light output
1.49
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.