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137 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 13:01 | Tran: 20:13 | Set: 3:28
Alt: -10.12°   Az: 51.41°   Direction: North-East

137 Tauri is a variable star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Taurus.

137 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.59. Because of its faintness, 137 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 137 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 137 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 137 Tauri during the next 10000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 53m 48s
+14° 10’ 33”
15h 30m 05s
21h 23m 53s

J2000

05h 52m 22s
+14° 10’ 18”

Galactic Coordinates

193.51°
-6.22°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 137 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.59
137 Tauri is also a SiCrEu chemically peculiar star.

-0.40
B9
10795K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 137 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 137 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

137 Tauri is distant 515.01 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

157.98
515.01
-4 km/s
-0.02 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94945
SAO94945

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 137 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 75.8°
Max altitude: 52.7°
Azimuth: 284.2°