Its story
Tau Cen has a visual magnitude of about 3.85: under a reasonably dark sky it is typically reachable with the unaided eye.
Equatorial coordinates for Tau Cen: right ascension 12h 37m 42s, declination −48° 32′ 29″ (J2000), in the region of the Centaurus constellation (IAU figure Cen).
Tau Cen. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 61622, HD 109787, Gaia DR3 6127688772460862976. In the SkyKeepsake Centaurus (Cen) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 61622
- Right ascension
- 12h 37m 42s
- Declination
- −48° 32′ 29″
- Magnitude
- 3.85
- Distance
- ≈ 134 ly
Data: gaia-dr3