39 Tauri [SEP] constellation
39 Tauri
39 Tauri is the Flamsteed designation for an unresolved binary star in the northern constellation of Taurus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.90, so, according to the Bortle scale, it is faintly visible from suburban skies at night. Measurements made with the Hipparcos spacecraft show an annual parallax shift of 0.05904″, which is equivalent to a distance of around from the Sun.
A stellar classification of G5 V matches that of a G-type main sequence star; the type of the secondary component is
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