Taygeta
HR 1145 · HIP 17531 · 19 Tau
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.3 mag
- Parallax
- 7.97 mas → about 409.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6V
- Right ascension
- 56.3021°
- Declination
- 24.4673°
- Designation
- HR 1145
- Bayer designation
- 19 Tau
- HIP number
- 17531
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- These names were individually applied in Early Modern times from a family of characters in Greek mythology: Atlas, Pleione and their seven daughters, the Pleiades.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 409 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1617 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 24.5° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.