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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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27 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:50 | Tran: 17:53 | Set: 1:00
Alt: 6.04°   Az: 282.62°   Direction: West-North-West

27 Cancri is a variable giant star of spectral class M3 in the constellation of Cancer.

27 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.5. Because of its faintness, 27 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 27 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 27 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 27 Cancri during the next 1000 years (-0.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.73 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 28m 07s
+12° 34’ 11”
06h 24m 33s
14h 52m 41s

J2000

08h 26m 43s
+12° 39’ 15”

Galactic Coordinates

211.95°
26.79°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 27 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.5
Giant

-2.04
M3III
3649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 27 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 27 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

27 Cancri is distant 1,051.61 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

322.58
1,051.61
-7 km/s
-0.02 arcsec/y
-0.104"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97819
SAO97819

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 27 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 77.4°
Max altitude: 51.1°
Azimuth: 282.6°