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Transit: 12:54 
Sunset: 19:07
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89 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 22:26 | Tran: 5:53 | Set: 13:15
Alt: 1.01°   Az: 295.01°   Direction: West-North-West

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

89 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.79. Because of its faintness, 89 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 89 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 89 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 89 Tauri during the next 1000 years (1.55 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.38 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 39m 34s
+16° 04’ 51”
07h 17m 45s
11h 57m 19s

J2000

04h 38m 09s
+16° 01’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

181.72°
-20.12°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 89 Tauri star
Simplified finder chart for 89 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.79
Hypergiant

2.50
F0V
7399K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 89 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 89 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

89 Tauri is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 89 Tauri double sysyem:

5.79
11.69
5.9
140.5 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

89 Tauri is distant 148.45 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 38 kilometers per second.

45.54
148.45
38 km/s
0.093 arcsec/y
-0.023"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO94043
SAO94043

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 89 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 73.9°
Max altitude: 54.6°
Azimuth: 286.1°