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1 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 9:28 | Tran: 16:48 | Set: 0:08
Alt: 24.79°   Az: 264.21°   Direction: West

1 Cancri is a giant star of spectral class K3 in the constellation of Cancer.

1 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.78. Because of its faintness, 1 Cancri 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 1 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 1 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 1 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-4.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 58m 25s
+15° 43’ 14”
04h 39m 06s
12h 37m 31s

J2000

07h 56m 59s
+15° 47’ 25”

Galactic Coordinates

205.62°
21.45°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 1 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.78
Giant

0.02
K3III
4158K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 1 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 1 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

1 Cancri is distant 461.76 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

141.64
461.76
10 km/s
-0.028 arcsec/y
-0.042"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97399
SAO97399

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 1 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 74.3°
Max altitude: 54.2°
Azimuth: 285.7°