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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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3 Ceti

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:32 | Tran: 8:37 | Set: 13:42
Alt: 25.20°   Az: 204.44°   Direction: South-South-West

3 Ceti is a variable supergiant star of spectral class K3 in the constellation of Cetus.

3 Ceti visual magnitude is 4.94. Because of its moderate brightness, 3 Ceti is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 3 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 3 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 3 Ceti during the next 10000 years (-0.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 05m 48s
-10° 22’ 04”
01h 29m 27s
01h 35m 15s

J2000

00h 04m 30s
-10° 30’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

87.07°
-70.04°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.94
Supergiant

-3.52
K3I
3608K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 3 Ceti is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 3 Ceti. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

3 Ceti is distant 1,605.91 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 42 kilometers per second.

492.61
1,605.91
-42 km/s
-0.005 arcsec/y
-0.011"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO147066
SAO147066

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 3 Ceti rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 100.4°
Max altitude: 28.2°
Azimuth: 259.6°