B-type star · blue-white star

56 Tau

326 lybrightness mag 5.34A0p Si

Also catalogued as HR 1341 · HD 27309 · HIP 20186

11,692 K

temperature

5.34

apparent magnitude

63.68× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0p Si

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

326 years

at light speed from Earth

2.03×

as hot as the Sun

63.68×

the Sun's light output

0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

56 TauB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1471 →26 ly apart
52Phi Tau →32 ly apart
HR 1295 →32 ly apart
HR 1477 →39 ly apart
59Chi Tau →41 ly apart
43Ome1Tau →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

Elnath →mag 1.6
Alcyone →mag 2.9
Tianguan →mag 3.0
Chamukuy →mag 3.4
35Lam Tau →mag 3.4
Ain →mag 3.5
1Omi Tau →mag 3.6
Atlas →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.