A-type star · white star

62 Tau

909 lybrightness mag 6.34B3V

Also catalogued as HR 1378 · HD 27778 · HIP 20533

8,378 K

temperature

6.34

apparent magnitude

197× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

909 years

at light speed from Earth

1.45×

as hot as the Sun

197×

the Sun's light output

-0.89

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

62 TauA-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1297 →61 ly apart
HR 1222 →170 ly apart
HR 1286 →180 ly apart
HR 1215 →190 ly apart
HR 1191 →200 ly apart
HR 1344 →210 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.