Star profile
6 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 6 Tauri
6 Tauri is a hot blue B-type star roughly 350 light-years away in the wide territory of Taurus, toward the western reaches that drift away from the Pleiades and the Hyades. Its blue-white glow betrays a very hot surface. The light reaching us tonight slipped away around the middle of the seventeenth century, in the same generation in which Galileo defended heliocentrism and Kepler set down his laws of planetary motion.
Where it is and when to see it
6 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 48° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 59° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 47° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 81° S.
It ranks no. 116 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 350 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 6 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 350.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 53.150° · Dec 9.373°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16511 · HD 21933
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Other stars in Taurus
Taurus has 144 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AldebaranAlpha Tauri0.87
- ElnathBeta Tauri1.65
- AlcyoneEta Tauri2.85
- HIP 208425.72
- 131 Tauri5.72
- HIP 218195.73
- Asterope5.76
- HIP 202685.76