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57 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:45 | Tran: 18:56 | Set: 2:12
Alt: 46.81°   Az: 219.90°   Direction: South-West

57 Tauri is a variable and double hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Taurus.

57 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.59. Because of its faintness, 57 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 57 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 57 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 57 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.93 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.35 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 21m 22s
+14° 05’ 38”
01h 47m 39s
06h 09m 01s

J2000

04h 19m 57s
+14° 02’ 07”

Galactic Coordinates

180.46°
-24.8°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.59
Hypergiant

2.33
F0IV
7591K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 57 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 57 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

57 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 57 Tauri double sysyem:

5.59
13.49
7.9
34.9 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

57 Tauri is distant 146.12 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 42 kilometers per second.

44.82
146.12
42 km/s
0.116 arcsec/y
-0.021"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93872
SAO93872

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 57 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 75.9°
Max altitude: 52.6°
Azimuth: 284.1°