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Transit: 13:38 
Sunset: 21:06
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37 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:34 | Tran: 10:53 | Set: 18:12
Alt: 6.46°   Az: 66.28°   Direction: East-North-East

37 Tauri is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Taurus.

37 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.36. Because of its moderate brightness, 37 Tauri is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 37 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 37 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 37 Tauri during the next 10000 years (15.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -9.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 06m 12s
+22° 08’ 59”
17h 16m 41s
21h 22m 54s

J2000

04h 04m 41s
+22° 04’ 54”

Galactic Coordinates

171.28°
-22.15°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.36
Hypergiant

0.64
K0III
4581K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 37 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 37 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

37 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 37 Tauri double sysyem:

4.36
9.36
5
137.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

37 Tauri is distant 180.71 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

55.43
180.71
9 km/s
0.09 arcsec/y
-0.059"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO76430
SAO76430

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 37 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Empório, Greece are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Athens):

Azimuth: 67.9°
Max altitude: 71.7°
Azimuth: 292.1°