Star profile
HIP 20804
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 20804
Hot blue in Taurus, 587 light years away, far from the Pleiades but sharing their youthful temperature. The light crossing the winter sky tonight set out around 1438, when Gutenberg in Mainz was refining the principles of his movable-type press. A B-class star with no known companions: a blue beacon, solitary, within the Bull's herd.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20804 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 HIP 20804
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 587.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 66.870° · Dec 11.212°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20804 · HD 28217
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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 263965.83
- 105 Tauri5.84
- HIP 216045.85
- HIP 213235.88
- HIP 187355.89