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18 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 9:58 | Tran: 18:18 | Set: 2:42
Alt: 4.21°   Az: 305.87°   Direction: North-West

18 Tauri is a main-sequence star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Taurus.

18 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.64. Because of its faintness, 18 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 18 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 18 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 18 Tauri during the next 10000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 46m 39s
+24° 54’ 58”
07h 47m 56s
11h 34m 35s

J2000

03h 45m 09s
+24° 50’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

165.7°
-23.26°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 18 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.64
Main-sequence

0.38
B8V
11092K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 18 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 18 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

18 Tauri is distant 367.53 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

112.74
367.53
-2 km/s
0.02 arcsec/y
-0.047"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO76137
SAO76137

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 18 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 65.1°
Max altitude: 63.4°
Azimuth: 294.9°