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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:02 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:51
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μ Tauri (mu Tauri)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 6:39 | Tran: 13:23 | Set: 20:06
Alt: 9.60°   Az: 87.65°   Direction: East

μ Tauri is a sub-giant star of spectral class B3 in the constellation of Taurus.

μ Tauri visual magnitude is 4.29. Because of its moderate brightness, μ 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 μ Tauri (mu Tauri) star
DSS2 image of μ Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of μ Tauri during the next 10000 years (3.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 16m 54s
+08° 57’ 14”
18h 16m 46s
22h 33m 41s

J2000

04h 15m 32s
+08° 53’ 31”

Galactic Coordinates

184.21°
-28.85°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for μ Tauri (mu Tauri).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.29
Sub-giant

-1.33
B3IV
10941K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

μ Tauri is distant 434.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

133.33
434.67
17 km/s
0.021 arcsec/y
-0.024"/y

Alternative Designations

μ Tauri
(mu Tauri)
SAO111696
SAO111696

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 81.0°
Max altitude: 47.5°
Azimuth: 279.0°