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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:56 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:58
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32 Ceti

Above the horizon.  Rise: 4:45 | Tran: 9:58 | Set: 15:12
Alt: 8.58°   Az: 115.92°   Direction: East-South-East

32 Ceti is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Cetus.

32 Ceti visual magnitude is 6.4. Because of its faintness, 32 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 32 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 32 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 32 Ceti during the next 10000 years (-2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 11m 28s
-08° 46’ 17”
19h 43m 25s
20h 54m 54s

J2000

01h 10m 11s
-08° 54’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

137.48°
-71.25°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 32 Ceti.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.4
Hypergiant

1.16
K0III
4649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 32 Ceti is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 32 Ceti. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

32 Ceti is distant 364.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

111.86
364.65
-20 km/s
-0.013 arcsec/y
-0.036"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO129154
SAO129154

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 32 Ceti rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 98.8°
Max altitude: 29.7°
Azimuth: 261.2°