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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:25 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:03
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79 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:04 | Tran: 19:09 | Set: 2:19
Alt: -17.83°   Az: 321.86°   Direction: North-West

79 Tauri is a main-sequence star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Taurus.

79 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.03. Because of its faintness, 79 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 79 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 79 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 79 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.75 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.27 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 30m 14s
+13° 06’ 04”
09h 31m 27s
14h 01m 42s

J2000

04h 28m 50s
+13° 02’ 50”

Galactic Coordinates

182.78°
-23.73°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.03
Main-sequence

1.57
A7V
7938K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 79 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 79 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

79 Tauri is distant 160.35 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 33 kilometers per second.

49.19
160.35
33 km/s
0.105 arcsec/y
-0.016"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93960
SAO93960

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 79 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 76.9°
Max altitude: 51.6°
Azimuth: 283.1°