B-type star · blue-white star

Taygeta

Taygeta is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 409 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,744 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 261× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 409 years ago.

409 lybrightness mag 4.30B6V

Also catalogued as 19 Tau · HR 1145 · HD 23338 · HIP 17531

11,744 K
temperature
4.30
apparent magnitude
261× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
409 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
261×
the Sun's light output
-1.19
absolute magnitude
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TaygetaB-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.