Key facts
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Right ascension
- 03 49 09.74306
- Declination
- +24 ° 03 ′ 12.3017 ″
- Apparent magnitude v
- 3.63 (3.84 / 5.46)
- Evolutionary stage
- main sequence + main sequence
- Spectral type
- B8III
- U b color index
- −0.36
- B v color index
- −0.08
- Variable type
- SPB
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Encyclopedic overview
Atlas /ˈætləs/, designation 27 Tauri, is a binary star system in the constellation of Taurus. It is a member of the Pleiades, an open star cluster (M45). It is 444 light-years (136 parsecs) away, and is 3.92 degrees north of the ecliptic.
Nomenclature
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atlas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.