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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:23 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:05
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66 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:14 | Tran: 19:00 | Set: 1:51
Alt: -28.33°   Az: 11.77°   Direction: North-North-East

66 Tauri is a double main-sequence star of spectral class A3 in the constellation of Taurus.

66 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.12. Because of its faintness, 66 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 66 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 66 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 66 Tauri during the next 10000 years (-2.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 25m 14s
+09° 31’ 02”
12h 41m 58s
17h 07m 12s

J2000

04h 23m 51s
+09° 27’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

185.11°
-26.88°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 66 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.12
Main-sequence

-0.30
A3V
9328K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 66 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 66 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

66 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 66 Tauri double sysyem:

5.12
5.22
0.1
0.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

66 Tauri is distant 396.11 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

121.51
396.11
-4 km/s
-0.015 arcsec/y
-0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO111791
SAO111791

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 66 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 80.5°
Max altitude: 48.0°
Azimuth: 279.5°