B-type star · blue-white star

Tau For

384 lybrightness mag 6.01A0V

Also catalogued as HR 1114 · HD 22789 · HIP 17007

10,475 K

temperature

6.01

apparent magnitude

47.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

384 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

47.64×

the Sun's light output

0.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau ForB-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1018 →31 ly apart
33Tau8Eri →32 ly apart
HR 1016 →42 ly apart
HR 974 →47 ly apart
HR 1246 →48 ly apart
Chi3For →55 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.