F-type star · yellow-white star

Tau Scl

226 lybrightness mag 5.69F2V

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau SclF-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

Pi Scl →15 ly apart
Sig Scl →30 ly apart
48 Cet →34 ly apart
HR 325 →34 ly apart
HR 359 →37 ly apart
HR 630 →37 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.