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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:07 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:45
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88 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:09 | Tran: 13:59 | Set: 20:49
Alt: 48.16°   Az: 192.44°   Direction: South-South-West

88 Tauri is a variable and double star of spectral class A5 in the constellation of Taurus.

88 Tauri visual magnitude is 4.25. Because of its moderate brightness, 88 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 88 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 88 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 88 Tauri during the next 10000 years (9.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 37m 03s
+10° 12’ 40”
00h 33m 34s
05h 10m 37s

J2000

04h 35m 39s
+10° 09’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

186.4°
-24.13°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 88 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.25

0.93
A5
8321K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 88 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 88 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

88 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 88 Tauri double sysyem:

4.25
7.85
3.6
69.7 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

88 Tauri is distant 150.37 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 29 kilometers per second.

46.13
150.37
29 km/s
0.055 arcsec/y
-0.046"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94026
SAO94026

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 88 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 79.8°
Max altitude: 48.7°
Azimuth: 280.2°