Star profile
32 Tauri
What is 32 Tauri
32 Tauri lies about 138 light-years away, in the part of the Bull near the Hyades —the open cluster that draws the face of the mythological animal. It is a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun and quicker to burn through its hydrogen. Its light set out around 1888, in the very decade when astronomy was inventing the first photographic plates of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
32 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 61° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 72° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 34° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 68° S.
It ranks no. 101 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 140 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 32 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 138.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 59.217° · Dec 22.478°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18471 · HD 24740
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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
- 80 Tauri5.58
- HIP 276295.60
- 137 Tauri5.60
- 51 Tauri5.64
- 63 Tauri5.64