Star profile
13 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 13 Tauri
13 Tauri burns blue about 539 light-years away, in the body of the Bull, not far from the famous Pleiades cluster. Its B spectrum reveals a surface above twenty thousand degrees, a cold and electric quality of light. The light reaching the eye tonight broke free when the great Renaissance navigators were first crossing the oceans.
Where it is and when to see it
13 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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 13 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 539.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 55.579° · Dec 19.700°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17309 · HD 23016
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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 188055.67
- HIP 212955.67
- 120 Tauri5.67
- HYG 1183515.70
- 45 Tauri5.71