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28 Ceti

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:42 | Tran: 15:51 | Set: 21:00
Alt: 28.63°   Az: 186.23°   Direction: South

28 Ceti is a main-sequence star of spectral class A1 in the constellation of Cetus.

28 Ceti visual magnitude is 5.58. Because of its faintness, 28 Ceti 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 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 28 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 28 Ceti during the next 10000 years (5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 07m 20s
-09° 42’ 19”
00h 22m 10s
01h 29m 30s

J2000

01h 06m 05s
-09° 50’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

134.92°
-72.37°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 28 Ceti.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.58
Main-sequence

-0.73
A1V
10002K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

28 Ceti is distant 594.89 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

182.48
594.89
11 km/s
0.03 arcsec/y
0.004"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO147606
SAO147606

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 99.7°
Max altitude: 28.8°
Azimuth: 260.3°