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2 Piscium

Below the horizon.  Rise: 18:43 | Tran: 0:46 | Set: 6:54
Alt: -11.27°   Az: 286.35°   Direction: West-North-West

2 Piscium is a double giant star of spectral class K1 in the constellation of Pisces.

2 Piscium visual magnitude is 5.43. Because of its faintness, 2 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 2 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 2 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 2 Piscium during the next 10000 years (14.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -11.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 00m 43s
+01° 05’ 43”
07h 18m 58s
06h 19m 41s

J2000

22h 59m 27s
+00° 57’ 46”

Galactic Coordinates

74.59°
-51.08°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 2 Piscium star
Simplified finder chart for 2 Piscium.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.43
Giant

0.76
K1
4791K

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

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

Star System Properties

2 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 2 Piscium double sysyem:

5.43
13.13
7.7
3.9 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

2 Piscium is distant 280.31 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 13 kilometers per second.

85.98
280.31
-13 km/s
0.086 arcsec/y
-0.071"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO127881
SAO127881

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 2 Piscium rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 88.9°
Max altitude: 39.6°
Azimuth: 271.1°