#epsilon tauri

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Epsilon Tauri

[quiltofstars]

The star Ain, ε Tauri // Reg Pratt

The name Ain comes from the Arabic ain for "eye" as the eye of the bull, Taurus.

[michaelgabrill]

[apod]

2024 January 26

Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Reg Pratt

Explanation: Epsilon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 times the solar luminosity. A member of the Hyades open star cluster the giant star is known by the proper name Ain, and along with brighter giant star Aldebaran, forms the eyes of Taurus the Bull. Surrounded by dusty, dark clouds in Taurus, epsilon Tau is also known to have a planet. Discovered by radial velocity measurements in 2006, Epsilon Tauri b is a gas giant planet larger than Jupiter with an orbital period of 1.6 years. And though the exoplanet can't be seen directly, on a dark night its parent star epsilon Tauri is easily visible to the unaided eye.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240126.html

[jennelikejennay]

Planet naming conventions! This works for Star Trek fics or anywhere else, because this is one of several ways planets are named in real life.

Start with the constellation the star is in (from Earth). Say Cygnus, the swan. Put that in the possessive form (us turns to i, a turns to ae). Then the stars are named with Greek letters from the brightest to the dimmest. So the third-brightest star in Cygnus is called Gamma Cygni.

Then you can letter or number the planets. Real astronomers tend to use letters (Alpha Tauri b) whereas in Star Trek it's often Roman numerals (Ceti Alpha V). Either is fine.

Does this sound really terrocentric to you? It is! The Federation has the bad habit of naming things and keeping those names over the names given to them by the people who live there. I.e. Vulcan over T'Khasi, Kronos over Qo'noS. If you are coming up with the name the inhabitants call it, you'll want to use an alien sounding word, not this system.

(Also Delta Vega is the fourth star in the constellation Vega, not anywhere near Vulcan, which is in the Epsilon Eridani system.

Can we all just agree that where Jim gets marooned in the 2009 movie is T'Khut? It's the only place that makes sense.)

[system-help-things]

Hey could you help us? One of my Dalek alters wants to change their name because the name that they currently have was given to them by a bad person. Do you have any space/galaxy/cosmic themed names to give me? All options you post will be given to them for them to decide ^_^

⚞ Oh boy do I have some names for you! (This is just a huge list of space themed names and sense there is so many I disregarded putting the meanings next to each one but they are names of stars, planets, galaxies, and other space related things!)

Blitzar (a neutron star that spins so fast it collapses into a black hole)

Nash (name of a star)

Oberon

Amalthea

Cosmos

Cosmo/Cozmo

Nebula

Moonshine

Luna

Lyra

Juno

Solar

Jupiter

Saturn

Sol

Aries

Cepheus

Europa

Comet

Zodiac

Celeste/Celestine

Constellation

Starry

Cassiopeia

Orian

Celestia

Galaxy/Galazie

Moon

Cosmic

Pulsar

Quasar

Space

Deimos

Phobos

Adrastea

Aitne

Ananke

Aoede

Arche

Autonoe

Callisto

Stella

Sunny

Carme

Callirrhoe

Carpo

Chaldene

Cyllene

Elara

Erinome

Euanthe

Eukelade

Euporie

Europa

Eurydome

Ganymede

Harpalyke

Hegemone

Helike

Hermippe

Himalia

Locaste

Isonone

Kleyna

Kallichore

Kalyke

Kore

Leda

Magaclite

Metis

Mneme

Orthosie

Pasiphae

Pasithee

Praxidike

Sinope

Sponde

Taygete

Thebe

Thelxinoe

Themisto

Thyone

Asteria

Aegir

Albiorix

Anthe

Atlas

Bebhionn

Bergelmir

Bestla

Calypso

Daphnis

Dione

Enceladus

Epimetheus

Erriapo

Farbauti

Fenrir

Fornjot

Greip

Hati

Helene

Hyperion

Hyrokkin

Janus

Jarnsaxa

Kari

Kiviuq

Loge

Methone

Mimas

Mundilfari

Narvi

Astro

Paaliaq

Pallene

Pan

Pandora

Phoebe

Polydeuces

Prometheus

Rhea

Siarnaq

Skathi

Surtur

Suttung

Tarqeq

Tarvos

Telesto

Tethys

Thrymr

Titan

Ymir

Ophelia

Perdita

Portia

Prospero

Rosalind

Setebos

Stephano

Sycorax

Titania

Trinculo

Despina

Larissa

Kavelaars

Nereid

Neso

Proteus

Psamathe

Thalassa

Nix

Hydra

Kerberos

Dysnomia

Namaka

Pegasi

Leonis

Cephei

Ophiuchi

Leporis

Cassiopeiae

Arietis

Aurvandill

Antares

Zeta

Ceti

Gamma

Epsilon

Aquarii

Leonis

Corvi

Epsilon

Sagittarii

Draconis

Pegasi

Denebola

Canis

Minoris

Aldebaran

Tauri

Eridani

Herculis

Altair

Borealis

Sirius

Taurus 

Gemini

Leo 

Virgo

Libra

Scorpius

Sagittarius

Capricornus

Aquarius

Pisces 

⚞ Apologies if there are any repeats! And sorry I know its a lot....

[l-polarisb-l]

150 FOLLOWERS ON PIXILART WHOOOOOOOOOO

Featuring:

Procyon

Sirius

Epsilon

Capella

Tauri

Proxima

And me, Polaris!

Enjoy!

[nlockett]

APOD January 26, 2024 Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet silon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 times the solar luminosity. A member of the Hyades open star cluster the giant star is known by the proper name Ain, and along with brighter giant star Aldebaran, forms the eyes of Taurus the Bull. Surrounded by dusty, dark clouds in Taurus, epsilon Tau is also known to have a planet. Discovered by radial velocity measurements in 2006, Epsilon Tauri b is a gas giant planet larger than Jupiter with an orbital period of 1.6 years. And though the exoplanet can't be seen directly, on a dark night its parent star epsilon Tauri is easily visible to the unaided eye. ©Reg Pratt

[uzaydanhaberler]

Epsilon Tauri: Gezegenli Yıldız

Günün Astronomi Görseli 26 Ocak 2024 Görsel & Telif: Reg Pratt Epsilon Tauri 146 ışık yılı uzaklıkta yer alıyor. K-tipi bir kırmızı dev yıldız olan epsilon Tau Güneş’ten daha soğuk olmasına rağmen Güneş’in yaklaşık 13 katı yarıçapıyla Güneş’in yaklaşık 100 katı parlaklığa sahip. Hyades açık yıldız kümesinin bir üyesi olan dev yıldız Ain özel adıyla da bilinir ve daha parlak dev yıldız…

[namesetc]

names based on solar systems

an / ann - andro - andra - androm / androme - andromi - andromid - andromida - andromidae

ara

bo / boe / bow / beau - bor / borr - bori / borie / bory - boria - borea - boreal - boreali - borealis

bet / bett - beta

can - cancri

cy - cyg - cygni - cygnus

cor / corr - coro / corro - coron / corron / corran / coran - corona - coronus - coronae

ceph / cephe - cephi - cephei

dra / dray / drae - drac / drack - draco - dracon - draconi - draconis

ep - epsi - epsil - epsilo - epsilon

eri - erid - erida - eridan - eridani

gli / glie / glee - glis / gliss - glies / gliess / gliese

gam / gamm - gamma

gem - gemi - gemini - gemin - gemino - geminor - geminora - geminoru - geminorum

herc - hara - haracle - haracles / haraclese - hercu - hercule - hercules - herculean - herculis

horo / horro - horol - horolo - horologii

io - iot / iote - iota

kep - kepler

li / ly - libra

milk - milky - milkyway

ogle

peg - pega - pegas - pegasus - pegasi

pi / py - pisce - pisces

poll - pollu - pollux

rho

sol

sun

taur - tauri - taurus

ur - urs - ursa - ursae

upsi - upsil - upsilon

vi / vy - vir - virgo - virgi - virginia - virginis

wasp

[saintseiya-zone]

Saint Seiya Birthdates

January

Capricorn

1 - Yoruhime Tsukishima

2 - Lionet Blériot

3 - Capricorn Eito

4 - Polaris Hilda

6 - Canis Major Sirius

10 - Black Canes Venatici Yudo

12 - Capricorn Shura

20 - Vampire Erhart

Aquarius

23 - Cygnus Hyoga

24 - Hakutaku Fei-Yan

25 - Hydra Curtis

26 - Owl Partita

27 - Papillon Myu

February

Aquarius

1 - Worm Raimi

2 - Mine

5 - Aquarius Degel

7 - Aquarius Camus

8 - Alioth Epsilon Fenrir, Aquarius Krest

10 - Hydra Ichi

11 - Quetzalcoatl Carbella

13 - Behemoth Violate

14 - Harpy Valentine

17 - Kraken Isaac

Piscis

20 - Centaurus Babel, Canes Venatici Asterion

21 - Cyclops Giganto

23 - Pisces Albafica

27 - Shelley

March

Piscis

2 - Scylla Io

7 - Harpy Chunfeng

8 - Sasha

9 - Pefko

10 - Pisces Aphrodite

15 - Poseidon Seraphina

13 - Frog Xeros

18 - Aquila Marin, Seika

19 - Pisces Rugonis, Dryad Luco

20 - Sparrow Mudan

Aries

21 - Julian Solo

22 - Jamadhar Áima

24 - Ophiucus Shaina

25 - Griffon Minos

27 - Aries Mu

29 - Cerberus Dante

30 - Aries Shion

April

Aries

1 - Appendix Kiki

4 - Atla

5 - Miho

6 - Gioca

9 - Connor Lugh

14 - Aries Gateguard, Aries Theseus

12 - Crane Yuzuriha

15 - Alraune Queen

17 - Chameleon June

18 - Deadly Beetle Stand

19 - Aries Avenir

Taurus

20 - Shunrei

30 - Cepehus Daidalos

May

Taurus

2 - Taurus Francisca

4 - Bear Douglas

5 - Tokumaru Tatsumi

6 - Taurus Teneo, Black Cetus Allegre

7 - Sea Horse Baian

8 - Taurus Aldebaran

15 - Bear Geki

17 - Cor Tauri

18 - Taurus Rasgado

20 - Balor (Cruach)

Gemini

30 - Gemini Saga, Gemini Kanon

31 - Fluorite

June

Gemini

6 - Ahimsa

7 - Cat Sith Cheshire

8 - Wyvern Shouichirou, Gemini Soujirou

9 - Youalteputzli Nahualpilli

11 - Nasu Veronica

13 - Hypnos, Thanatos

15 - Bhuj Kókalla

16 - Sagitta Ptolemy

17 - Golem Rock

18 - Sea Dragon Unity

20 - Gemini Aspros, Gemini Defteros

Cancer

24 - Cancer Deathmask

25 - Pandora

26 - Elf Mills

30 - Cancer Sage, Altar Hakurei

July

Cancer

1 - Hanuman Tokusa

4 - Vouivre Garnet

6 - Garuda Aiacos

7 - Cattleya Mikagami

10 - Musca Dio

12 - Sphinx Esther

13 - Black Pegasus

14 - Cancer Manigoldo

16 - Wolf Junkers

18 - Black Herakles Laimargos

20 - Basilisk Sylphid, Wolf Nachi

22 - Black Altar Avido

Leo

25 - Celintha

26 - Nine-tailed Fox Hui

August

Leo

2 - Cetus Moses

3 - Deep Niobe

4 - Leo Regulus

7 - Laelaps Suzuri

8 - Jango

9 - Centaurus Photia

10 - Black Dragons, Chrysaor Krishna

11 - Upyr Leibold

12 - Bennu Kagaho

14 - Black Terror Ferser

15 - Phoenix Ikki, Herakles Alghetti

16 - Leo Aioria

18 - Leo Illias

19 - Lymnades Caça

22 - Auriga Capella

Virgo

25 - Esmeralda

25 - Sui

27 - Corvus Jamian

30 - Troll Ivan

31 - Pyxis Rusk

September

Virgo

1 - Saori Kido

3 - Pandora Heinstein

4 - Virgo Asmita

7 - Yi-Lin, Necromancer Charlotte

9 - Andromeda Shun

10 - Siren Sorrento

11 - Necromancer Byaku

12 - Agasha

14 - Genbu Gregor

16 - Alches

18 - Lycaon Phlegyas

19 - Virgo Shaka

22 - Kageboshi

Libra

25 - Bat Wimber

October

Libra

2 - Acheron Charon

3 - Puppis Lacaille, Dullahan Cube

4 - Dragon Shiryu, Black Andromeda

5 - Hao

8 - Salo

11 - Lacerta Misty

13 - Sylph Edward

16 - Centaurus Yugo

17 - Libra Itia

20 - Libra Dohko

Scorpio

23 - Atavaka

26 - Sagita Alcon

27 - Scorpio Kardia

30 - Wyvern Radamanthys

November

Scorpio

2 - Unicorn Yato

3 - Unicorn Jabu

5 - Corvus Rusé

7 - Gorgon Ochs

8 - Scorpio Milo

9 - Scorpio Zaphiri

11 - Perseus Algol

13 - Vela Tsubaki

14 - Mandrake Fyodor

15 - Lyra Orphee

18 - Sphinx Pharaoh

21 - Mermaid Tethys

Sagittarius

23 - Tezcatlipoca Huesuda

24 - Failinis

25 - Dubhe Alpha Siegfried

28 - Sagittarius Aeras, Athena (XV)

30 - Sagittarius Aioros

December

Sagittarius

1 - Pegasus Seiya, Ikaros (Touma), Garuda Matsuri

3 - Sagittarius Sisyphos

5 - Pegasus Tenma

10 - Equuleus Kyoko & Shoko

14 - Cassios

17 - Ursula Walden

19 - Minotaurus Gordon, Cetus Chris

Capricorn

23 - Mizar Zeta Syd, Alcor Zeta Bud

24 - Balrog Lune, Alone

27 - Capricorn ElCid

28 - Black Cygnus

30 - Lionet Ban

31 - Mephistopheles Youma

[foxgirlchorix]

general terms for groups of multiple genders by proportion

A discussion with @libragender led to the realization that there are several terms for multiple genders and for partial genders, but not many more granular terms for multiple genders or the combination of these.

My apologies for the extreme nerdiness inherent in this. I hope you will find the terms useful!

These can be used on their own or as adjectives for another term or system- it may also be useful to use shorthand terms from something like the alloy system, but I’m unsure if the creator of that system is okay with using them like that.

the list is organized like:

- identity (star namesake): explanation

dualgender:

- spicic (alpha virginis): when one has two genders of fairly similar proportions

- almazic (epsilon aurigae): when one has two genders but one is confusing or obscured

- siric (alpha canis majoris): when one has two genders of varying proportions

- procyonic (alpha canis minoris): see siric, but the proportions are counter to the standard assumption (perhaps use in conjunction with “libragender”, unless there’s a counter term?)

- miric (omicron ceti): when one has two genders that fluctuate in proportion

- cygnic (cygnus x-1): when one has either one or two genders, but a strong component of one’s gender identity is agender or demigender 

trigender:

- gliesic (gliese 667): when one has three genders of fairly similar proportion

- rigikenic (alpha centuari): when one has three genders, two of which are much more prominent than the third

- polaric (alpha ursae minoris): when one has three genders, one of which is more prominent than the other two

- fomalhic (alpha piscis austrini): when one has three genders of varying proportion

- algolic (beta persei): when one has three to four genders that fluctuate in proportion

- quvidelic (qv telescopii): when one has three to five genders with some components being agender or demigenders

tetragender:

- xitauric (xi tauri): when one has four genders of fairly similar proportion

- capellic (alpha aurigae): when one has four genders, two of which are major and two of which are minor

- mizaric (zeta ursae majoris): when one has four genders of varying proportion

quingender

- dabihic (beta capricorni): when one has five genders of fairly similar proportion

- mintakic (delta orionis): when one has five genders of varying proportion

- almachic (gamma andromedae): when one has five to six genders that fluctuate in proportion

hexagender

- betucic (beta tucanae): when one has six genders of fairly similar proportion

- castoric (alpha geminorum): when one has six genders of varying proportion

- sagatic (sagittarius a*): when one has six or more genders with some components being agender or demigenders

septegender+:

- djabbanic (nu scorpii): when one has seven or more genders of fairly similar proportion

- arcassic (AR cassiopeiae): when one has seven or more genders of varying proportion

- trapezic (trapezium cluster): when one has more than seven genders that fluctuate in proportion to each other, or if one has many genders of chaotic proportions

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you have suggestions for things I missed or if I misuse anything! @lgbtqiarchive @variant-archive

[beautyaboveus]

On Sunday, 29 March around civil dusk (some 40 minutes after sunset), observers throughout the British Isles with binoculars and small telescopes can watch magnitude +3.5 naked-eye star Epsilon (&epsilon) Tauri disappear behind the darkened hemisphere of the almost 5-day-old waxing crescent Moon. Then, about 70 minutes later, UK skywatchers have the slightly more challenging job of seeing the star reappear at the bright lunar limb. Precise times depend on where you live in the British Isles as illustrated above and explained below. AN graphic by Ade Ashford.

As a gentle reminder for those of us living in the UK, British Summer Time starts at 1:00am GMT on Sunday, 29 March 2020 when the clocks go forward one hour. On that date, sunset for an observer in the heart of the UK will be 7:41pm BST. While keen observers will grumble at the prospect of waiting 60 minutes longer for darkness to fall, some solace may be found in viewing an interesting lunar occultation occurring on the first night of daylight savings time.

Epsilon (ε) Tauri is a magnitude +3.5 naked-eye star that has the proper name Ain. It is easily found almost 3.2 degrees to the northwest of first-magnitude Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus, amid the stars of the loose open cluster known as the Hyades. Aldebaran, Ain and the Hyades conveniently fit in the same binocular field of view at magnifications of 10× or less. Physically, ε Tauri is an orange giant star some 147 light-years attended by a super-Jupiter exoplanet called Epsilon Tauri b, formally named Amateru.

The disappearance of Epsilon (ε) Tauri, otherwise known by the proper name Ain, at the darkened lunar limb on 29 March shouldn’t be too challenging for UK-based owners of 10× magnification binoculars and larger provided you steady the view by leaning your elbows on a low wall or fence. In any small telescope, it’s an easy observation to make. Timing, however, is everything and that depends on where you live. AN graphic by Ade Ashford.

On Sunday, 29 March around civil dusk, which is about 40 minutes after sunset for the heart of the UK, observers throughout the British Isles with clear skies can watch ε Tauri disappear behind the darkened hemisphere of the almost 5-day-old waxing crescent Moon. Skywatchers in the west of the Republic of Ireland will be first to see the star occulted a few seconds after 8:08pm, while those in Belfast and Dublin will witness it four and five minutes later, respectively.

Then, about 70 minutes later, UK skywatchers have the slightly more challenging job of seeing the star reappear at the bright lunar limb.

[epsilontauri]

name change name change name change

hi i decided to change my username i‘m epsilontauri now bc nebelkoenigin didn’t feel right anymore.

so:

tumblr: nebelkoenigin —>epsilontauri

insta: nebelkonigin —> epsilon74tauri

and yeah epsilon tauri is a star in the constellation of taurus and is also known as „ain“ which means eye in arabic and i really really dig it

[debushit]

i hate epsilon tauri

[coolfriendlyguy]

#astronomy Star Epsilon (ε) Tauri performs conceal and search with the crescent Moon on 29 March – Astronomy Now

https://astronomy-hobby-zone.eshcarmel.org/astronomy-star-epsilon-%ce%b5-tauri-performs-conceal-and-search-with-the-crescent-moon-on-29-march-astronomy-now/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr