| Star name | Alcyone, Alcione, Alkyone, Alkione, Alcyon |
| Constellation | Taurus; Tauri (genitive) |
| Designation | 25 eta Tau, HD 23630, SAO 76199, BS 1165 |
| Association | Pleiades, "The Seven Sisters," open cluster in Taurus |
| Location (epoch 2000) | RA 3h 47m 29.0s; Dec +24d 06' 18" |
| Proper motion (arcsec/y) | RA +0.019, Dec -0.044 |
| Proper motion magnitude | 0.008 arcsec/y |
| Spectral type | B7e III |
| Color | Blue, blue-white (type late B) |
| Luminosity class | Giant (class III) |
| Pecularities | Prominent emission lines |
| Visual magnitude | 2.87 |
| Absolute visual magnitude | -2.61 |
| Color index (B - V) | -0.09 |
| Radial veloctiy | +10 km/s |
| Distance | 407.7 ly = 125.0 pc = 3.857 Em |
| Mass | 7 solar masses = 1 x 1031 kg |
| Radius | 8 solar radii = 6 Gm |
| Surface gravity | 0.1 solar gravities = 3 m/s2 |
| Mean density | 0.01 solar densities = 20 kg/m3 |
| Rotational velocity | 100 km/s |
| Effective temperature | 13200 K |
| Color index (U - B)0 | -0.44 |
| Bolometric correction | -0.97 |
| Bolometric magnitude | -2.5 |
| Luminosity | 700 solar luminosities = 3 x 1029 W |