Fat Jon - "Pleione"

Album - Hundred Eight Stars Info. on Star: Pleione (28 Tauri)Mother to Taurus's Pleiades, the famed Seven Sisters, at mid-fifth magnitude (5.09) Pleione (Flamsteed number 28) ranks seventh among the named stars of the cluster, just marginally behind the Pleiades' mythical father, the god Atlas. All nine are hot class B stars, their blue-white similarity giving the cluster so much of its sparkle. Together with Sterope, Pleione is the coolest (class B8) of them, its temperature 12,000 Kelvin. It and Sterope are also the only dwarfs, stars that are fully fusing hydrogen in their cores and have not yet begun to evolve (the others either subgiants like Merope or giants like Alcyone). From its distance of 385 light years, Pleione shines with a luminosity 190 times that of the Sun, its radius 3.2 solar, its mass (from the luminosity and temperature) 3.4 solar. Pleione's glory lies in its spectrum, its array of colors...more go to... http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/pleione.html