Star profile
Lambda Tauri
Variable starWhat is Lambda Tauri
Lambda Tauri is one of Taurus’s classic Algol-type eclipsing binaries: every few days an unseen companion drifts in front and steals a measurable share of its blue light, the steady wink that nineteenth-century astronomers seized upon to chart the mechanics of distant suns. A B-type star some 484 light-years off, it belongs to the older herd of hot giants that populate the Bull, far from the cluster of the Hyades but under the same winter ceiling of the northern night.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda 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 Lambda Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.41
- Distance
- 484.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 60.170° · Dec 12.490°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18724 · HD 25204
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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
- TianguanZeta Tauri2.97
- ChamukuyTheta 2 Tauri3.40
- AinEpsilon Tauri3.53
- Omicron Tauri3.61
- Atlas3.62