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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:17
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24 Persei

Above the horizon.  Rise: 0:13 | Tran: 10:24 | Set: 20:32
Alt: 55.78°   Az: 258.59°   Direction: West-South-West

24 Persei is a giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Perseus.

24 Persei visual magnitude is 4.93. Because of its moderate brightness, 24 Persei 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 Persei star
DSS2 image of 24 Persei. The red arrow shows the motion of 24 Persei during the next 10000 years (-7.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 00m 38s
+35° 16’ 59”
02h 49m 55s
05h 50m 34s

J2000

02h 59m 03s
+35° 10’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

150.45°
-20.78°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.93
Giant

-0.23
K2III
4251K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

24 Persei is distant 350.16 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 36 kilometers per second.

107.41
350.16
-36 km/s
-0.046 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO56052
SAO56052

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 24 Persei rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 54.7°
Max altitude: 73.8°
Azimuth: 305.3°