Star profile
76 Tauri
What is 76 Tauri
76 Tauri is a yellow-white F-type star about 188 light-years away, another of the lights scattered across the Bull's outline. Hotter than the Sun and still relatively young, it holds a sharp, quiet glow best appreciated through binoculars. The light crossing the eyepiece tonight set out in the early nineteenth century —the years when the first asteroids were being discovered—, and returns each winter on the western flank of the Hyades.
Where it is and when to see it
76 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 76 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 187.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 67.098° · Dec 14.741°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20873 · HD 28294
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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 187355.89
- HIP 192845.89
- 39 Tauri5.90
- HIP 175955.91
- HIP 204175.91