Star profile

4 Tauri

3D likeness based on its real data · class A · ~8,500 K

What is 4 Tauri

4 Tauri is a white A-type star about 361 light-years away, in a stretch of the Bull crowded with young clusters. Its surface hovers near ten thousand degrees, giving it that crisp, faintly bluish hue typical of main-sequence stars in full prime. Its light set out around the mid-seventeenth century, travelling while Galileo and Huygens were turning Europe into a new nation of observers.

Where it is and when to see it

4 Tauri lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 50° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 61° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 45° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 79° S.

It ranks no. 56 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 17° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 4 Tauri

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.14
Distance: 361.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 52.602° · Dec 11.336°
Catalogue: HIP 16322 · HD 21686

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Other stars in Taurus

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