Star profile
118 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 118 Tauri
118 Tauri splits in two within the Bull at 425 light-years away: what the eye reads as a single dot, a modest telescope resolves into a pair of close blue stars. Both are hot B-class suns, far younger and far more massive than ours, in the early phase of a brilliant and brief stellar life. They sit slightly apart from the famous Hyades cluster, in a stretch of sky thick with bright stellar fires.
Where it is and when to see it
118 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 64° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 31° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 65° S.
It ranks no. 84 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 430 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 118 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 425.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 82.319° · Dec 25.150°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25695 · HD 35943
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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
- 93 Tauri5.45
- 36 Tauri5.46
- 81 Tauri5.47
- 130 Tauri5.47
- 53 Tauri5.50