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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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15 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:41 | Tran: 17:40 | Set: 2:42
Alt: 5.41°   Az: 312.63°   Direction: North-West

15 Cancri is a variable star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Cancer.

15 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.64. Because of its faintness, 15 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 15 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 15 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 15 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-1.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 14m 42s
+29° 34’ 43”
08h 10m 28s
16h 25m 11s

J2000

08h 13m 08s
+29° 39’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

192.58°
29.71°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 15 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.64
15 Cancri is also a SiCr chemically peculiar star.

-1.50
B9
11092K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 15 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 15 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

15 Cancri is distant 871.66 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

267.38
871.66
20 km/s
-0.009 arcsec/y
-0.018"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO80016
SAO80016

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 15 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 60.4°
Max altitude: 68.1°
Azimuth: 299.6°