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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:57 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:56
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26 Aquarii

Above the horizon.  Rise: 0:26 | Tran: 6:35 | Set: 12:40
Alt: 39.87°   Az: 183.48°   Direction: South

26 Aquarii is a giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Aquarius.

26 Aquarii visual magnitude is 5.67. Because of its faintness, 26 Aquarii 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 26 Aquarii star
DSS2 image of 26 Aquarii. The red arrow shows the motion of 26 Aquarii during the next 100000 years (1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -11.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 43m 27s
+01° 24’ 07”
00h 10m 40s
21h 54m 08s

J2000

21h 42m 10s
+01° 17’ 07”

Galactic Coordinates

57.05°
-36.37°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 26 Aquarii.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.67
Giant

-2.76
K2III
3886K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 26 Aquarii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 26 Aquarii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

26 Aquarii is distant 1,582.52 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

485.44
1,582.52
10 km/s
0.001 arcsec/y
-0.007"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO126997
SAO126997

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 26 Aquarii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 88.6°
Max altitude: 39.9°
Azimuth: 271.4°