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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 6:58 
Transit: 11:43 
Sunset: 16:27
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98 Tauri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 17:43 | Tran: 2:08 | Set: 10:29
Alt: 35.38°   Az: 266.72°   Direction: West

98 Tauri is a multiple hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Taurus.

98 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.81. Because of its faintness, 98 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 98 Tauri star
DSS2 image of 98 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 98 Tauri during the next 10000 years (3.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 59m 40s
+25° 05’ 12”
04h 15m 59s
09h 15m 39s

J2000

04h 58m 09s
+25° 03’ 01”

Galactic Coordinates

177.24°
-10.92°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 98 Tauri star
Simplified finder chart for 98 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.81
Hypergiant

1.02
A0V
10125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 98 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 98 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

98 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 98 Tauri double sysyem:

5.81
11.61
5.8
94.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

98 Tauri is distant 296.09 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.

90.83
296.09
26 km/s
0.022 arcsec/y
-0.048"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO76862
SAO76862

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 98 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 64.9°
Max altitude: 63.6°
Azimuth: 295.1°