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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:18 
Transit: 12:46 
Sunset: 18:13
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30 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:29 | Tran: 3:28 | Set: 10:24
Alt: 29.52°   Az: 249.37°   Direction: West-South-West

30 Tauri is a variable and double main-sequence star of spectral class B3 in the constellation of Taurus.

30 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.07. Because of its faintness, 30 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 30 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 30 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 30 Tauri during the next 10000 years (4.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 49m 37s
+11° 13’ 04”
03h 44m 29s
07h 34m 07s

J2000

03h 48m 16s
+11° 08’ 35”

Galactic Coordinates

177.17°
-32.53°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 30 Tauri star
Simplified finder chart for 30 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.07
Main-sequence

-1.12
B3V
12103K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 30 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 30 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

30 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 30 Tauri double sysyem:

5.07
9.47
4.4
9.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

30 Tauri is distant 564.99 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

173.31
564.99
16 km/s
0.028 arcsec/y
-0.022"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93611
SAO93611

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 30 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 78.8°
Max altitude: 49.7°
Azimuth: 281.2°