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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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28 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:46 | Tran: 17:00 | Set: 1:18
Alt: 61.77°   Az: 162.98°   Direction: South-South-East

28 Cancri is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Cancer.

28 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.1. Because of its faintness, 28 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 28 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 28 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 28 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-5.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -9.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 30m 07s
+24° 03’ 32”
23h 25m 07s
07h 55m 14s

J2000

08h 28m 36s
+24° 08’ 40”

Galactic Coordinates

199.88°
31.38°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 28 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.1
Hypergiant

1.50
F0V
7866K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 28 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 28 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

28 Cancri is distant 271.44 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

83.26
271.44
9 km/s
-0.031 arcsec/y
-0.058"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO80204
SAO80204

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 28 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 65.9°
Max altitude: 62.6°
Azimuth: 294.1°