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TimezoneEurope/Berlin
Sunrise: 5:24 
Transit: 13:21 
Sunset: 21:17
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2 Ceti

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:42 | Tran: 6:23 | Set: 11:01
Alt: 9.82°   Az: 130.06°   Direction: South-East

2 Ceti is a main-sequence star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Cetus.

2 Ceti visual magnitude is 4.55. Because of its moderate brightness, 2 Ceti 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 2 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 2 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 2 Ceti during the next 10000 years (4.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 05m 02s
-17° 11’ 38”
20h 31m 27s
20h 36m 30s

J2000

00h 03m 44s
-17° 20’ 09”

Galactic Coordinates

72.1°
-75.26°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.55
Main-sequence

0.33
B9V
10795K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 2 Ceti is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 2 Ceti. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

2 Ceti is distant 227.81 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

69.88
227.81
-5 km/s
0.026 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO147059
SAO147059

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 2 Ceti rise, transit and set times from Prittriching, Germany are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Berlin):

Azimuth: 107.2°
Max altitude: 24.6°
Azimuth: 252.8°