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TimezoneAmerica/Jamaica
Sunrise: 5:40 
Transit: 12:15 
Sunset: 18:49
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70 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 3:31 | Tran: 9:50 | Set: 16:09
Alt: -47.62°   Az: 321.98°   Direction: North-West

70 Tauri is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class F7 in the constellation of Taurus.

70 Tauri visual magnitude is 6.46. Because of its faintness, 70 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 70 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 70 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 70 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.78 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.47 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 27m 04s
+15° 59’ 50”
10h 17m 39s
14h 44m 44s

J2000

04h 25m 37s
+15° 56’ 26”

Galactic Coordinates

179.79°
-22.54°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.46
Main-sequence

3.12
F7V
6435K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 70 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 70 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

70 Tauri is distant 151.84 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 38 kilometers per second.

46.58
151.84
38 km/s
0.107 arcsec/y
-0.028"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93925
SAO93925

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 70 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Lacovia, Jamaica are the following (all times relative to the local timezone America/Jamaica):

Azimuth: 74.0°
Max altitude: 87.9°
Azimuth: 286.0°