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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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47 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 6:55 | Tran: 13:41 | Set: 20:26
Alt: -29.18°   Az: 1.80°   Direction: North

47 Tauri is a multiple giant star of spectral class G5 in the constellation of Taurus.

47 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.84. Because of its moderate brightness, 47 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 47 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 47 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 47 Tauri during the next 10000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 15m 19s
+09° 19’ 34”
12h 06m 22s
16h 21m 41s

J2000

04h 13m 56s
+09° 15’ 48”

Galactic Coordinates

183.6°
-28.94°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 47 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.84
Giant

-0.44
G5III
5281K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 47 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 47 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

47 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 47 Tauri double sysyem:

4.84
7.04
2.2
1.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

47 Tauri is distant 371.30 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

113.90
371.30
-7 km/s
-0.01 arcsec/y
-0.038"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO111674
SAO111674

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 47 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 80.7°
Max altitude: 47.8°
Azimuth: 279.3°