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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:57 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:56
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33 Arietis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 2:55 | Tran: 11:33 | Set: 20:10
Alt: 17.28°   Az: 67.85°   Direction: East-North-East

33 Arietis is a double main-sequence star of spectral class A3 in the constellation of Aries.

33 Arietis visual magnitude is 5.3. Because of its faintness, 33 Arietis 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 33 Arietis star
DSS2 image of 33 Arietis. The red arrow shows the motion of 33 Arietis during the next 10000 years (11.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 42m 10s
+27° 10’ 06”
17h 35m 02s
20h 17m 13s

J2000

02h 40m 41s
+27° 03’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

151.02°
-29.79°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 33 Arietis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.3
Main-sequence

1.03
A3V
9125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 33 Arietis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 33 Arietis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

33 Arietis is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 33 Arietis double sysyem:

5.3
9.5
4.2
28.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

33 Arietis is distant 233.36 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

71.58
233.36
17 km/s
0.067 arcsec/y
-0.031"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO75510
SAO75510

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 33 Arietis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 62.8°
Max altitude: 65.7°
Azimuth: 297.2°