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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
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111 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 6:57 | Tran: 14:28 | Set: 21:58
Alt: 2.19°   Az: 64.37°   Direction: East-North-East

111 Tauri is a double main-sequence star of spectral class F8 in the constellation of Taurus.

111 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.99. Because of its moderate brightness, 111 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 111 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 111 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 111 Tauri during the next 1000 years (4.10 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.15 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 25m 53s
+17° 24’ 17”
16h 43m 03s
22h 08m 57s

J2000

05h 24m 25s
+17° 22’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

187.2°
-10.29°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 111 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.99
Main-sequence

4.16
F8V
6256K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 111 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 111 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

111 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 111 Tauri double sysyem:

4.99
7.89
2.9
85.7 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

111 Tauri is distant 47.81 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 37 kilometers per second.

14.66
47.81
37 km/s
0.246 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94526
SAO94526

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 111 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 72.6°
Max altitude: 55.9°
Azimuth: 287.4°