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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:21 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:07
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120 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:29 | Tran: 20:06 | Set: 3:47
Alt: -16.40°   Az: 334.47°   Direction: North-North-West

120 Tauri is a variable sub-giant star of spectral class B2 in the constellation of Taurus.

120 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.69. Because of its faintness, 120 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 120 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 120 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 120 Tauri during the next 100000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 35m 00s
+18° 33’ 21”
10h 16m 34s
15h 51m 34s

J2000

05h 33m 31s
+18° 32’ 25”

Galactic Coordinates

187.39°
-7.84°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.69
Sub-giant

-3.11
B2IV
10002K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 120 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 120 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

120 Tauri is distant 1,873.56 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 41 kilometers per second.

574.71
1,873.56
41 km/s
-0.002 arcsec/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94649
SAO94649

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 120 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 71.4°
Max altitude: 57.1°
Azimuth: 288.6°