ZETA TAU (Zeta Tauri). Many are the brighter stars that carry no "western" proper names (the names really coming from ancient Greece and the middle east). The "Zeta" star of Taurus is one of them.
01 1910 zeta TAU 5 37 38.6 +21 8 33 B4IIIpe 3.00 -0.19 1165 eta TAU 3 47 29.0 +24 6 18 B7IIIe 2.87 -0.09 1411 theta TAU 4 28 34.4 +15 57 44 K0IIIbFe-0.5 3.84 0.95 1412 theta TAU 4 28 39.7 +15 52 15 A7III 3.40 0.18 1620 iota TAU 5 3 5.
Near the tip of the bull's right horn, the star Zeta Tauri, lies the remarkable Crab Nebula, the result of one of the most celebrated events in the history of astronomy - a stellar explosion, seen from Earth in AD 1054, ...
Other stars in this class include zeta Tau and BU Tau ("Pleione"), mu Cen, lambda Pav, and epsilon Cap. Iota Cas is an alpha CVn type variable: 4.45 to 4.53 every 1.74 days. Omicron Cas is a gamma Cas type variable, ranging from 4.5 to 4.62.
[7934] zeta Tauri is a binary star 417 light-years distant. The primary component is an extremely luminous, hot, blue-white giant classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable. It has luminosity 5,700 times that of the Sun.
Fujiwara. A Japanese poet Sadiae Fujiwara wrote about the star Zeta Tauri.
An 8-inch telescope reveals the Crab's oval shape, but it will appear faint. It is located northwest of Zeta Tauri, the star that marks the southern tip of the horns of Taurus the Bull.
All month, Saturn resides in the constellation Taurus, between the two modestly bright stars depicting the tips of the bull's horns. At evening look for El Nath - the brighter of these two stars - to the planet's upper left, and for Zeta Tauri to ...
Thabit Upsilon Orionis Theemin Upsilon-2 Eridani Thuban Alpha Draconis Tien Kuan Zeta Tauri Toliman Alpha Centauri Torcularis Septentrionalis Omicron Piscium Tseen Kee Phi Velorum Tureis Pi Puppis Tyl Epsilon Draconis ...
See also: Zeta Tauri, Magnitude, Sky, Light, Light Year
 
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