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129 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 8:00 | Tran: 15:21 | Set: 22:42
Alt: -22.47°   Az: 6.53°   Direction: North

129 Tauri is a giant star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Taurus.

129 Tauri visual magnitude is 6. Because of its faintness, 129 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 129 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 129 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 129 Tauri during the next 100000 years (6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 48m 13s
+15° 49’ 48”
12h 25m 04s
18h 13m 17s

J2000

05h 46m 45s
+15° 49’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

191.39°
-6.55°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 129 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6
Giant
129 Tauri is also a HgMn chemically peculiar star.

-1.15
B8III
10941K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 129 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 129 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

129 Tauri is distant 878.71 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 19 kilometers per second.

269.54
878.71
19 km/s
0.004 arcsec/y
-0.004"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94848
SAO94848

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 129 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 74.2°
Max altitude: 54.4°
Azimuth: 285.8°