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Sunset: 17:11
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20 Cancri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:12 | Tran: 22:47 | Set: 6:27
Alt: -19.50°   Az: 11.98°   Direction: North-North-East

20 Cancri is a main-sequence star of spectral class A9 in the constellation of Cancer.

20 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.95. Because of its faintness, 20 Cancri 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 20 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 20 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 20 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-9.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 24m 48s
+18° 14’ 59”
12h 47m 32s
21h 12m 20s

J2000

08h 23m 21s
+18° 19’ 55”

Galactic Coordinates

205.7°
28.25°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 20 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.95
Main-sequence

0.53
A9V
8403K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 20 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 20 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

20 Cancri is distant 394.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 36 kilometers per second.

121.07
394.67
36 km/s
-0.054 arcsec/y
-0.028"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97781
SAO97781

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 20 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 71.8°
Max altitude: 56.8°
Azimuth: 288.2°