M-type star · red

16Tau4Eri

305 lybrightness mag 3.70M3/M4III

Also catalogued as HR 1003 · HD 20720 · HIP 15474

3,630 K

temperature

3.70

apparent magnitude

251× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M3/M4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

305 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

251×

the Sun's light output

-1.15

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

16Tau4EriM-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 953 →17 ly apart
19Tau5Eri →21 ly apart
15 Eri →49 ly apart
36Tau9Eri →57 ly apart
HR 1274 →58 ly apart
Sig For →59 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
Ran →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.