Star profile
134 Tauri
Hot blue starWhat is 134 Tauri
134 Tauri is a blue B9IV subgiant some 249 light-years away, on the northern flanks of the Bull. Its luminosity exceeds the Sun's by more than eighty times, burning at nearly twice our star's temperature. Faint to the unaided eye, it has nonetheless been chosen for chemical-abundance studies of B and A stars —research that dissects its atmospheric inventory, element by element.
Where it is and when to see it
134 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 51° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 62° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 43° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 77° S.
It ranks no. 43 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 18° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 250 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 134 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.89
- Distance
- 248.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 87.387° · Dec 12.651°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27511 · HD 38899
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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
- 126 Tauri4.84
- 114 Tauri4.88
- 132 Tauri4.88
- 104 Tauri4.91
- Omega 2 Tauri4.93