Star profile
29 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 29 Tauri
29 Tauri burns hot and blue across the Bull, on the same celestial latitude as the Pleiades. It is a B-type star, far more massive and far younger than the Sun, whose colour betrays a surface above ten thousand degrees. Its light crosses 534 years before reaching our eyes —it left when Charles V signed the abdication that split his empire in two.
Where it is and when to see it
29 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 45° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 55° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 50° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 84° S.
It ranks no. 69 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 16° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 530 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 29 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.34
- Distance
- 533.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 56.419° · Dec 6.050°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17563 · HD 23466
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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
- 46 Tauri5.29
- 40 Tauri5.32
- HIP 215155.32
- 56 Tauri5.34
- HIP 189935.36