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Pleione - 28 Tauri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:15 | Tran: 18:30 | Set: 2:49
Alt: -10.84°   Az: 24.34°   Direction: North-North-East

Pleione, also designated as 28 Tauri , is a variable main-sequence star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Taurus.

Pleione visual magnitude is 5.09. Because of its faintness, Pleione 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 Pleione - 28 Tauri star
DSS2 image of Pleione. The red arrow shows the motion of Pleione during the next 10000 years (2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 50m 41s
+24° 12’ 42”
13h 45m 23s
17h 36m 04s

J2000

03h 49m 11s
+24° 08’ 12”

Galactic Coordinates

166.96°
-23.17°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for Pleione - 28 Tauri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.09
Main-sequence

-0.28
B8V
11247K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Pleione is distant 387.17 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

118.76
387.17
4 km/s
0.013 arcsec/y
-0.05"/y

Alternative Designations

Pleione
SAO76229
SAO76229

Visibility from Your Location

Today's Pleione - 28 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 65.8°
Max altitude: 62.7°
Azimuth: 294.2°