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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 54° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 65° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 40° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 74° S.
It ranks no. 91 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 420 years ago.
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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