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

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:50 | Tran: 19:05 | Set: 2:24
Alt: 4.84°   Az: 72.23°   Direction: East-North-East

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

76 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.9. Because of its faintness, 76 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 76 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 76 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 76 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.80 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.40 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 29m 48s
+14° 47’ 41”
17h 15m 46s
21h 45m 35s

J2000

04h 28m 23s
+14° 44’ 26”

Galactic Coordinates

181.26°
-22.77°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.9
Hypergiant

2.23
F0IV
7337K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 76 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 76 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

76 Tauri is distant 176.98 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 44 kilometers per second.

54.29
176.98
44 km/s
0.108 arcsec/y
-0.024"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93948
SAO93948

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 76 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 75.2°
Max altitude: 53.3°
Azimuth: 284.8°