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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:47 
Transit: 12:58 
Sunset: 21:10
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21 Piscium

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:50 | Tran: 7:54 | Set: 13:59
Alt: 0.83°   Az: 270.92°   Direction: West

21 Piscium is a main-sequence star of spectral class A5 in the constellation of Pisces.

21 Piscium visual magnitude is 5.77. Because of its faintness, 21 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 21 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 21 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 21 Piscium during the next 10000 years (-0.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 50m 45s
+01° 13’ 03”
06h 00m 48s
05h 51m 34s

J2000

23h 49m 27s
+01° 04’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

92.57°
-58.09°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.77
Main-sequence

1.20
A5V
8486K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 21 Piscium is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 21 Piscium. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

21 Piscium is distant 267.43 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

82.03
267.43
5 km/s
-0.002 arcsec/y
-0.03"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO128401
SAO128401

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 21 Piscium rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 88.8°
Max altitude: 39.7°
Azimuth: 271.2°