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1 Ceti

Below the horizon.  Rise: 9:52 | Tran: 14:28 | Set: 19:03
Alt: -42.70°   Az: 304.60°   Direction: North-West

1 Ceti is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Cetus.

1 Ceti visual magnitude is 6.26. Because of its faintness, 1 Ceti 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 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 1 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 1 Ceti during the next 10000 years (14.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 59m 38s
-15° 42’ 27”
09h 24m 16s
09h 23m 55s

J2000

23h 58m 21s
-15° 50’ 51”

Galactic Coordinates

72.72°
-73.3°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 1 Ceti.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.26
Hypergiant

0.39
K0II
4559K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

1 Ceti is distant 485.84 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

149.03
485.84
4 km/s
0.086 arcsec/y
-0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO165972
SAO165972

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 105.7°
Max altitude: 22.8°
Azimuth: 254.3°