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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:16 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:12
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115 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:14 | Tran: 19:48 | Set: 3:26
Alt: -0.39°   Az: 59.71°   Direction: East-North-East

115 Tauri is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class B5 in the constellation of Taurus.

115 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.42. Because of its faintness, 115 Tauri is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 115 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 115 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 115 Tauri during the next 10000 years (0.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 28m 38s
+17° 58’ 54”
16h 20m 49s
21h 49m 27s

J2000

05h 27m 10s
+17° 57’ 43”

Galactic Coordinates

187.07°
-9.42°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 115 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.42
Main-sequence

-1.14
B5V
11573K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 115 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 115 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

115 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 115 Tauri double sysyem:

5.42
6.62
1.2
0.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

115 Tauri is distant 668.03 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

204.92
668.03
18 km/s
0.005 arcsec/y
-0.022"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94554
SAO94554

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 115 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 72.0°
Max altitude: 56.5°
Azimuth: 288.0°