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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:25 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:03
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12 Cancri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:40 | Tran: 22:49 | Set: 6:01
Alt: -23.40°   Az: 17.45°   Direction: North-North-East

12 Cancri is a main-sequence star of spectral class F3 in the constellation of Cancer.

12 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.27. Because of its faintness, 12 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 12 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 12 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 12 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-0.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 10m 06s
+13° 33’ 57”
13h 05m 46s
21h 15m 53s

J2000

08h 08m 42s
+13° 38’ 26”

Galactic Coordinates

208.98°
23.18°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 12 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.27
Main-sequence

1.61
F3V
6724K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 12 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 12 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

12 Cancri is distant 278.16 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

85.32
278.16
-10 km/s
-0.001 arcsec/y
-0.017"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97594
SAO97594

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 12 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 76.4°
Max altitude: 52.1°
Azimuth: 283.6°