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TimezoneEurope/Rome
Sunrise: 5:57 
Transit: 13:33 
Sunset: 21:10
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17 Persei

Above the horizon.  Rise: 0:04 | Tran: 8:59 | Set: 17:50
Alt: 15.20°   Az: 304.66°   Direction: North-West

17 Persei is a variable giant star of spectral class K5 in the constellation of Perseus.

17 Persei visual magnitude is 4.53. Because of its moderate brightness, 17 Persei is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 17 Persei star
DSS2 image of 17 Persei. The red arrow shows the motion of 17 Persei during the next 10000 years (1.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -10.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 53m 05s
+35° 09’ 48”
06h 55m 22s
09h 48m 28s

J2000

02h 51m 30s
+35° 03’ 34”

Galactic Coordinates

149.07°
-21.64°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.53
Giant

-0.96
K5III
3705K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

17 Persei is distant 409.03 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 14 kilometers per second.

125.47
409.03
14 km/s
0.009 arcsec/y
-0.061"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO55946
SAO55946

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 17 Persei rise, transit and set times from Viola, Italy are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Rome):

Azimuth: 54.8°
Max altitude: 80.9°
Azimuth: 305.2°