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75 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 20:44 | Tran: 4:12 | Set: 11:37
Alt: -5.79°   Az: 305.70°   Direction: North-West

75 Tauri is a variable and double giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Taurus.

75 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.97. Because of its moderate brightness, 75 Tauri is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 75 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 75 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 75 Tauri during the next 10000 years (1.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 4.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 29m 51s
+16° 24’ 46”
08h 10m 28s
12h 40m 19s

J2000

04h 28m 26s
+16° 21’ 34”

Galactic Coordinates

179.9°
-21.75°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 75 Tauri star
Simplified finder chart for 75 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.97
Giant

1.09
K2III
4451K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 75 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 75 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

75 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 75 Tauri double sysyem:

4.97
7.47
2.5
0 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

75 Tauri is distant 194.28 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

59.59
194.28
18 km/s
0.006 arcsec/y
0.028"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93950
SAO93950

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 75 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 73.6°
Max altitude: 54.9°
Azimuth: 286.4°