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16 Piscium

Above the horizon.  Rise: 17:24 | Tran: 23:33 | Set: 5:46
Alt: 32.42°   Az: 223.65°   Direction: South-West

16 Piscium is a double main-sequence star of spectral class F6 in the constellation of Pisces.

16 Piscium visual magnitude is 5.68. Because of its faintness, 16 Piscium 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 16 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 16 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 16 Piscium during the next 1000 years (-1.72 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.02 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 37m 39s
+02° 14’ 21”
02h 22m 40s
02h 00m 20s

J2000

23h 36m 23s
+02° 06’ 07”

Galactic Coordinates

88.23°
-55.63°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 16 Piscium star
Simplified finder chart for 16 Piscium.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.68
Main-sequence

3.22
F6V
6674K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 16 Piscium is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 16 Piscium. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

16 Piscium is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 16 Piscium double sysyem:

5.68
5.78
0.1
0 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

16 Piscium is distant 101.02 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 39 kilometers per second.

30.99
101.02
39 km/s
-0.103 arcsec/y
0.061"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO128281
SAO128281

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 16 Piscium rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 87.8°
Max altitude: 40.8°
Azimuth: 272.2°