Star profile
83 Tauri
What is 83 Tauri
83 Tauri is a yellow-white F-type star only 148 light-years away —a modest distance by Taurean standards. Hotter than the Sun and a touch whiter in colour, it sits in the narrow spectral band where astronomers carefully look for stars potentially akin to our own. Its light, set out near the start of the twentieth century, now enters the field of any amateur telescope.
Where it is and when to see it
83 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 83 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.40
- Distance
- 147.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 67.656° · Dec 13.724°
- Catalogue
- HIP 21036 · HD 28556
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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
- Chi Tauri5.38
- HIP 216705.38
- 44 Tauri5.39
- 115 Tauri5.40
- HIP 177765.44