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Transit: 12:29 
Sunset: 18:51
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58 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:20 | Tran: 9:31 | Set: 15:42
Alt: 28.95°   Az: 79.10°   Direction: East

58 Tauri is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Taurus.

58 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.26. Because of its faintness, 58 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 58 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 58 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 58 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.80 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.40 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 22m 03s
+15° 09’ 16”
19h 48m 23s
00h 10m 27s

J2000

04h 20m 36s
+15° 05’ 43”

Galactic Coordinates

179.67°
-24.01°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.26
Hypergiant

1.89
F0V
8011K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 58 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 58 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

58 Tauri is distant 153.77 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 36 kilometers per second.

47.17
153.77
36 km/s
0.108 arcsec/y
-0.024"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93876
SAO93876

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 58 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Gaya, Nigeria are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Africa/Lagos):

Azimuth: 74.8°
Max altitude: 86.7°
Azimuth: 285.2°