B-type star · blue-white star

20Tau Ori

494 lybrightness mag 3.59B5III

Also catalogued as HR 1735 · HD 34503 · HIP 24674

11,831 K

temperature

3.59

apparent magnitude

732× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

494 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

732×

the Sun's light output

-2.31

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

20Tau OriB-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1697 →28 ly apart
HR 1830 →39 ly apart
HR 1693 →45 ly apart
HD 36814 →47 ly apart
31 Ori →58 ly apart
HR 1799 →66 ly apart

Bright stars in Orion

Hatysa →mag 2.8
Tabit →mag 3.2
28Eta Ori →mag 3.4
Meissa →mag 3.4
3Pi 4Ori →mag 3.7
8Pi 5Ori →mag 3.7
48Sig Ori →mag 3.8
9Omi2Ori →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.