Star profile
137 Tauri
Variable starWhat is 137 Tauri
137 Tauri is a variable blue B-type star around 424 light-years away in Taurus, not far from the open cluster of the Hyades. Its light shifts with the small variations typical of hot B-type stars that rotate quickly. The beam reaching us tonight set out near the close of the sixteenth century, when Tycho Brahe was honing his instruments at Uraniborg to chart the sky with the greatest precision ever attained before the telescope.
Where it is and when to see it
137 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 53° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 63° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 76° S.
It ranks no. 100 in brightness among the 144 stars of Taurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Aldebaran, the brightest: it lies about 19° 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 137 Tauri
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 424.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 88.093° · Dec 14.172°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27743 · HD 39317
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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
- 57 Tauri5.58
- 80 Tauri5.58
- HIP 276295.60
- 32 Tauri5.62
- 51 Tauri5.64