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public  Dongobesh, Tanzania Dongobesh, Tanzania  ⓘ
TimezoneAfrica/Dar_es_Salaam
Sunrise: 6:46 
Transit: 12:42 
Sunset: 18:38
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24 Capricorni

Below the horizon.  Rise: 20:56 | Tran: 3:05 | Set: 9:11
Alt: -51.80°   Az: 219.38°   Direction: South-West

24 Capricorni is a double hypergiant star of spectral class M0 in the constellation of Capricornus.

24 Capricorni visual magnitude is 4.5. Because of its moderate brightness, 24 Capricorni 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 24 Capricorni star
DSS2 image of 24 Capricorni. The red arrow shows the motion of 24 Capricorni during the next 10000 years (-3.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 08m 36s
-24° 54’ 07”
10h 17m 29s
07h 26m 06s

J2000

21h 07m 07s
-25° 00’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

21.98°
-40.01°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 24 Capricorni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.5
Hypergiant

-1.52
M0III
3635K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 24 Capricorni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 24 Capricorni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

24 Capricorni 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 24 Capricorni double sysyem:

4.5
11.6
7.1
26.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

24 Capricorni is distant 522.44 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 32 kilometers per second.

160.26
522.44
32 km/s
-0.023 arcsec/y
-0.043"/y

Alternative Designations

24 Capricorni
SAO190025
SAO190025

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 24 Capricorni rise, transit and set times from Dongobesh, Tanzania are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam):

Azimuth: 114.9°
Max altitude: 69.2°
Azimuth: 245.1°