B-type star · blue-white star

Asterope

372 lybrightness mag 5.76B8V

Also catalogued as 21 Tau · HR 1151 · HD 23432 · HIP 17579

10,598 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

56.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

372 years

at light speed from Earth

1.84×

as hot as the Sun

56.23×

the Sun's light output

0.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AsteropeB-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Celaeno →5.7 ly apart
HR 1183 →8.2 ly apart
22 Tau →8.2 ly apart
Merope →9.2 ly apart
Maia →11 ly apart
Pleione →11 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 5.8To 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.