40 Tauri

Below the horizon. Rise: 2:57 | Tran: 9:23 | Set: 15:49

Alt: -28.58° Az: 329.30° Direction: North-North-West

40 Tauri is a main-sequence star of spectral class B3 in the constellation of Taurus.

40 Tauri visual magnitude is 5.33. Because of its faintness, 40 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.

DSS2 image of 40 Tauri. The red arrow shows the motion of 40 Tauri during the next 10000 years (0.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

Right Ascension 04h 05m 06s

Declination +05° 30’ 15”

Hour Angle 10h 12m 54s

Sidereal Time 14h 18m 00s

J2000

Right Ascension 04h 03m 44s

Declination +05° 26’ 08”

Galactic Coordinates

Galactic Longitude 185.31°

Galactic Latitude -33.28°

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

Color ⬤

Magnitude 5.33

Class Main-sequence

Absolute magnitude -2.20

Spectral Type B3V

Color Index (B-V) -0.08

Temperature 11247K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 40 Tauri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

H-R diagram showing the position of 40 Tauri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

40 Tauri is distant 1,044.87 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

Distance (parsec) 320.51

Distance (light year) 1,044.87

Radial Speed 11 km/s

Proper Motion RA 0.003 arcsec/y

Proper Motion Dec -0.01"/y

Alternative Designations

Flamsteed designation 40 Tauri

Henry Draper Catalogue HD25558

SAO Catalogue SAO111585

Hipparcos Catalogue HIP18957

Durchmusterung Catalogue BD+05 584

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 40 Tauri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 84.5° RISE 2:57

Max altitude: 44.0° TRANSIT 9:23

Azimuth: 275.5° SET 15:49

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