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51 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 19:46 | Tran: 3:47 | Set: 11:44
Alt: -16.83°   Az: 3.02°   Direction: North

51 Tauri is a multiple hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Taurus.

51 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.65. Because of its faintness, 51 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 51 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 51 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 51 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.57 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.62 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 19m 51s
+21° 38’ 16”
12h 12m 26s
16h 32m 17s

J2000

04h 18m 23s
+21° 34’ 45”

Galactic Coordinates

173.99°
-20.17°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 51 Tauri star
Simplified finder chart for 51 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.65
Hypergiant

1.96
F0V
7591K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 51 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 51 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

51 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 51 Tauri double sysyem:

5.65
7.65
2
0.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

51 Tauri is distant 178.63 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 35 kilometers per second.

54.79
178.63
35 km/s
0.094 arcsec/y
-0.037"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO76541
SAO76541

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 51 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 68.4°
Max altitude: 60.2°
Azimuth: 291.6°