Star profile
129 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 129 Tauri
129 Tauri burns blue around 735 light-years away, in a wide region of the Bull, far from Aldebaran s face and the Pleiades cluster. Its type-B surface easily exceeds twenty thousand degrees, a cold and electric light that travels without rest. What a human eye receives tonight set out in the heart of the Middle Ages, while the first European universities were being built.
Where it is and when to see it
129 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 129 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 734.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 86.690° · Dec 15.822°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27265 · HD 38478
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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 181705.97
- HIP 206145.97
- HIP 226975.97
- HIP 221765.99
- HIP 204936.00