The Hyades open star cluster (Collinder 50; mag 1.0) in Taurus will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 28 November it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.
From Cambridge , it is visible between 17:46 and 05:32. It will become accessible at around 17:46, when it rises to an altitude of 11° above your eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 23:39, 63° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 05:32 when it sinks below 11° above your western horizon.
At a declination of 16°00'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere; it can be seen at latitudes between 86°N and 54°S.
At magnitude 1.0, Collinder 50 is visible to the naked eye, but best viewed through a pair of binoculars.
The position of Collinder 50 is as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| Collinder 50 | 04h27m00s | 16°00'N | Taurus | 1.0 | 0'00" |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 22 Nov 2024
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All times shown in EST.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
Image credit
© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)