Star profile
47 Tauri
What is 47 Tauri
47 Tauri is a yellow star a touch larger than the Sun, set in Taurus 332 light-years away, not far in perspective from the famous Hyades cluster. It does not stand out to the naked eye, but it shares the sky with Aldebaran and with the stellar drift that shapes the Bull's face. Its light, having left the photosphere in the heart of the seventeenth century, arrives now in quiet —the kind of spark that gives itself away only under truly dark skies.
Where it is and when to see it
47 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 47 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.84
- Distance
- 331.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 63.485° · Dec 9.264°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19740 · HD 26722
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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 210294.78
- Delta 2 Tauri4.80
- 139 Tauri4.81
- 126 Tauri4.84
- 114 Tauri4.88