Taygeta
Sign in to saveAlso known as q Tau, q Tauri, 19 Tau, 19 Tauri, HR 1145, HD 23338, HIP 17531, HIC 17531
Taygeta is a double star in the constellation of Taurus and a member of the Pleiades open star cluster (M45).
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It sits within the topics Bayer objects, Binary stars and Bright Star Catalogue objects.
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Wikidata facts
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR3 65296907494549120
- spectral class
- B5
- apparent magnitude
- 4.502
- right ascension
- 56.30206575083
- declination
- 24.46728048056
- effective temperature
- 7750
- parallax
- 9.5444
- stellar rotational velocity
- 112
- radial velocity
- 18.75
- epoch
- J2000.0
- absolute magnitude
- -1.18
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 20.1
- declination component of proper motion
- -44.8
- surface gravity
- 10000
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Nomenclature
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Taygeta is a double star in the constellation of Taurus and a member of the Pleiades open star cluster (M45).
It consists of a binary pair designated 19 Tauri A together with a single star visual companion, 19 Tauri B. 'A's' two components are themselves designated 19 Tauri Aa (officially named Taygeta , the traditional name for the entire system) and Ab.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taygeta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.