Star profile
111 Tauri
Variable starWhat is 111 Tauri
111 Tauri lies only 47 light-years away, a near neighbour of the Sun whose light set out less than half a century ago and still travels within a single human lifetime. An F-type star slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it shows subtle brightness variations betraying an active atmosphere. The precision of the Hipparcos and Gaia missions has mapped its distance to a margin measured in fractions of a light-year.
Where it is and when to see it
111 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 56° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 67° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 39° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 73° S.
It ranks no. 49 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 12° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 47 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 111 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.00
- Distance
- 46.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 81.106° · Dec 17.384°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25278 · HD 35296
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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
- 75 Tauri4.96
- 109 Tauri4.96
- Phi Tauri4.97
- 79 Tauri5.02
- Pleione5.05