Star profile
116 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 116 Tauri
116 Tauri is a hot blue-white B-type star 424 light-years away, on the edges of the winter Bull. Its light, which now lives inside our telescopes, left its surface in Galileo's times. It is one of those youthful, energetic suns that light the night sky with an almost metallic blue, distant neighbours of the Pleiades yet outside their cluster.
Where it is and when to see it
116 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 116 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 424.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 81.940° · Dec 15.874°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25555 · HD 35770
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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 259505.50
- Omega 1 Tauri5.51
- HIP 230435.51
- 72 Tauri5.53
- HIP 208845.53