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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:05 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:48
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117 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:14 | Tran: 14:43 | Set: 22:12
Alt: 21.92°   Az: 89.54°   Direction: East

117 Tauri is a giant star of spectral class M1 in the constellation of Taurus.

117 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.77. Because of its faintness, 117 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 117 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 117 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 117 Tauri during the next 10000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 29m 30s
+17° 15’ 29”
18h 54m 55s
00h 24m 25s

J2000

05h 28m 01s
+17° 14’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

187.79°
-9.64°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.77
Giant

-0.90
M1III
3608K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 117 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 117 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

117 Tauri is distant 704.10 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

215.98
704.10
-23 km/s
0.02 arcsec/y
-0.049"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94573
SAO94573

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 117 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 72.7°
Max altitude: 55.8°
Azimuth: 287.3°