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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:02 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:51
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17 Aquarii

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:20 | Tran: 6:31 | Set: 11:43
Alt: 23.04°   Az: 215.56°   Direction: South-West

17 Aquarii is a hypergiant star of spectral class M0 in the constellation of Aquarius.

17 Aquarii visual magnitude is 5.99. Because of its faintness, 17 Aquarii 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 17 Aquarii star
DSS2 image of 17 Aquarii. The red arrow shows the motion of 17 Aquarii during the next 10000 years (-4.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 24m 17s
-09° 12’ 35”
02h 11m 19s
23h 35m 37s

J2000

21h 22m 56s
-09° 19’ 09”

Galactic Coordinates

42.56°
-37.81°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.99
Hypergiant

-0.73
M0III
3734K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 17 Aquarii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 17 Aquarii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

17 Aquarii is distant 719.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

220.75
719.65
18 km/s
-0.025 arcsec/y
-0.026"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO145351
SAO145351

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 17 Aquarii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 99.2°
Max altitude: 29.3°
Azimuth: 260.8°