Talk:Tagyeta

Taygeta vs Taygete

Since there is no other "Taygeta" (the Pleiadian nymph is spelled "Taygete"), why isn't this article simply called "Taygeta"? And by the way, why is the star's name spelled differently? Some mention of Taygete should be in the article. Paul August ☎ 15:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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Is data for (Taygeta) 19 Tauri B available?

I spent some time tonight editing the opening section to make clear that this is a triple star system. In the 'Info Box' the article lists appropriate data for Aa and Ab, but B is not mentioned at all.

However, in the 'Properties' section, there is data on the distance in arc-seconds between the binary A's and B (and it is quite a distance in orbit!) and the type of star for B is also mentioned.

It seems to me that B should be mentioned in the Info Box, with its Mass and Luminosity, as well as the diameter of its orbit. We could also, in the body of the text, place mention of the orbital period, which would be quite large, I suspect.

All the best,

James 203.150.126.116 (talk) 19:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I had to revert your edits. 19 Tau B is a more distant star, not gravitationally related to the spectroscopic pair. The previous version was more correct, if somewhat misleading. "Double star" is not the same as "binary star", instead referring to a pair of "dots on the sky" that can be seen but may or may not be related. Probably a complete section going into the details would make things unambiguous, then could be summarised in the lead. Lithopsian (talk) 19:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

About your original question, obviously no orbital data. However, basic physical data is available if you want that in the starbox. Also things like parallax and magnitude. There is always a balance between mentioning all the nearby, but often unrelated, stars that have been listed as "companions" and turning the starbox into a table of all the stars in a patch of sky. Lithopsian (talk) 19:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)