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🌎  Observing from: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
🌅 Sunrise: 6:36  ☀️ Transit: 13:02  🌅 Sunset: 19:29

29 Arietis

29 Arietis is a main-sequence star in the constellation of Aries.

29 Arietis visual magnitude is 6.04. Because of its reltive faintness, 29 Arietis should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about 29 Arietis:

6.04
Main-sequence
29 Arietis is above the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]. Altitude: 53°.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of 29 Arietis

29 Arietis is situated close to the celestial equator, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of 29 Arietis are provided in the following table:

02h 32m 54s
+15° 02’ 04”
156.28°
-41.18°
Aries

The simplified sky map below shows the position of 29 Arietis in the sky:

Finder chart 29 Arietis star
Simplified finder chart for 29 Arietis.

Visibility of 29 Arietis from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's 29 Arietis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 75.0°
Max altitude: 53.6°
Azimuth: 285.0°
29 Arietis is above the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Digitized Sky Survey image of 29 Arietis

The image below is a photograph of 29 Arietis from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of 29 Arietis is -0.028 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and 0.037 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

Image of 29 Arietis star
DSS2 image of 29 Arietis. The red arrow shows the motion of 29 Arietis during the next 10000 years (-4.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 6.17 arcmin in declination);

Distance of 29 Arietis from the Sun and relative movement

29 Arietis is distant 93.57 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

28.70 pc
93.57 ly
6 km/s
-0.028 arcsec/year
0.037 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of 29 Arietis

29 Arietis belongs to spectral class F8 and has a luminosity class of V corresponding to a main-sequence star.

3.75
F8V
6213K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 29 Arietis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 29 Arietis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of 29 Arietis

SAO92998
SAO92998