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10 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:13 | Tran: 18:13 | Set: 0:18
Alt: -38.00°   Az: 3.05°   Direction: North

10 Tauri is a double sub-giant star of spectral class F9 in the constellation of Taurus.

10 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.28. Because of its moderate brightness, 10 Tauri is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 10 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 10 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 10 Tauri during the next 1000 years (-3.88 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.05 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 38m 09s
+00° 28’ 59”
12h 09m 37s
15h 47m 47s

J2000

03h 36m 52s
+00° 24’ 06”

Galactic Coordinates

185.12°
-41.66°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 10 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.28
Sub-giant

3.59
F9IV
6047K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 10 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 10 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

10 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 10 Tauri double sysyem:

4.28
14.28
10
396 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

10 Tauri is distant 44.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 28 kilometers per second.

13.72
44.72
28 km/s
-0.233 arcsec/y
-0.483"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO111292
SAO111292

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 10 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 89.5°
Max altitude: 39.0°
Azimuth: 270.5°