Star profile
130 Tauri
Highly luminous starWhat is 130 Tauri
130 Tauri is a yellow-white F-type beacon set roughly 1782 light-years away on the far reaches of Taurus. That it can still be glimpsed at magnitude 5.47 across such an immense gulf reveals an output thousands of times beyond the Sun's —the mark of a luminous supergiant. The light arriving tonight left its surface during the closing centuries of the Roman Empire, long before the mechanical clock was invented.
Where it is and when to see it
130 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 38° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 72° S.
It ranks no. 85 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 17° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,800 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 130 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 1782.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 86.859° · Dec 17.729°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27338 · HD 38558
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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
- 36 Tauri5.46
- 81 Tauri5.47
- 118 Tauri5.47
- 53 Tauri5.50
- 103 Tauri5.50