Star profile
72 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 72 Tauri
72 Tauri is a blue B-type star about 378 light-years away, in the same patch of the Bull that hosts the Hyades and the Pleiades. Its blue-white colour betrays a very hot surface, and its swift youthful rotation links it to the great stellar associations of the region. Small and discreet, it seems to float among the named giants of antiquity without ever asking to be noticed.
Where it is and when to see it
72 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 December: 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 72 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 378.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 66.823° · Dec 22.996°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20789 · HD 28149
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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
- Omega 1 Tauri5.51
- HIP 230435.51
- 116 Tauri5.52
- HIP 208845.53
- 122 Tauri5.53