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56 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:26 | Tran: 18:25 | Set: 2:27
Alt: 30.50°   Az: 267.30°   Direction: West

56 Tauri is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Taurus.

56 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.38. Because of its faintness, 56 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 56 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 56 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 56 Tauri during the next 10000 years (5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 21m 06s
+21° 49’ 57”
04h 31m 58s
08h 53m 04s

J2000

04h 19m 36s
+21° 46’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

174.04°
-19.83°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 56 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.38
Hypergiant
56 Tauri is also a Si chemically peculiar star.

0.45
A0
12293K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 56 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 56 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

56 Tauri is distant 315.89 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 12 kilometers per second.

96.90
315.89
12 km/s
0.03 arcsec/y
-0.04"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO76551
SAO76551

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 56 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 68.2°
Max altitude: 60.4°
Azimuth: 291.8°