Constellations
Taurus (Tau)
The Bull
Also known as bull.
6 looks for Taurus
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Taurus
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Bull
- IAU abbreviation
- Tau
- Its stars are named
- Tauri (as in "Alpha Tauri")
- Family
- The zodiac
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in January
- Centre
- Right ascension 4h 18m, declination +14° 33′
- The figure
- 12 stars joined by 11 lines
- Brightest star
- Aldebaran, magnitude 0.85
Star patterns in it: Winter Hexagon, Pleiades.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Aldebaran (α Tau)mag 0.85
- Elnath (β Tau)mag 1.65
- Tianguan (ζ Tau)mag 3.00
- Chamukuy (θ2 Tau)mag 3.40
- λ Taumag 3.47
- Ain (ε Tau)mag 3.53
- ο Taumag 3.60
- Prima Hyadum (γ Tau)mag 3.65
- ξ Taumag 3.74
- Secunda Hyadum (δ Tau)mag 3.76
- ν Taumag 3.91
- 10 Taumag 4.28
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation