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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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14 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 5:18 | Tran: 13:03 | Set: 20:48
Alt: 6.00°   Az: 294.42°   Direction: West-North-West

14 Tauri is a giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Taurus.

14 Tauri visual magnitude is 6.14. Because of its faintness, 14 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 14 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 14 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 14 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.93 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.90 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 45m 15s
+19° 44’ 37”
07h 03m 16s
10h 48m 31s

J2000

03h 43m 47s
+19° 39’ 53”

Galactic Coordinates

169.31°
-27.3°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 14 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.14
Giant

1.00
G8III
4719K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 14 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 14 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

14 Tauri is distant 347.18 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 78 kilometers per second.

106.50
347.18
78 km/s
0.116 arcsec/y
-0.054"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93568
SAO93568

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 14 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 70.3°
Max altitude: 58.3°
Azimuth: 289.7°