Star profile
Celaeno
16 Tauri · Taurus
Hot blue starWhat is Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the seven Pleiades sisters, mythological daughters of the titan Atlas and the oceanid Pleione, turned into stars to escape the hunter Orion who pursued them. It is a hot blue B-type star 377 light-years away, young and bright, wrapped along with its sisters in a faint veil of interstellar dust illuminated by their own glow. In Japanese, the cluster is called Subaru, and its arrangement was revered by cultures as distant as the Maya and the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
Where it is and when to see it
Celaeno 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 63° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 32° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 66° S.
It ranks no. 79 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 14° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 380 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Celaeno
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 377.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 56.201° · Dec 24.289°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17489 · HD 23288
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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
- 83 Tauri5.40
- 115 Tauri5.40
- HIP 177765.44
- HIP 189755.45
- 93 Tauri5.45