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Sunset: 20:50
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36 Piscium

Below the horizon.  Rise: 2:48 | Tran: 9:28 | Set: 16:09
Alt: -26.70°   Az: 26.64°   Direction: North-North-East

36 Piscium is a bright giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Pisces.

36 Piscium visual magnitude is 6.11. Because of its faintness, 36 Piscium 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 36 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 36 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 36 Piscium during the next 10000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 17m 52s
+08° 22’ 51”
13h 35m 33s
13h 53m 25s

J2000

00h 16m 34s
+08° 14’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

108.28°
-53.64°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 36 Piscium.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.11
Bright giant

0.45
G8II
4943K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 36 Piscium is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 36 Piscium. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

36 Piscium is distant 441.73 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

135.50
441.73
1 km/s
-0.02 arcsec/y
-0.019"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO109100
SAO109100

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 36 Piscium rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 81.6°
Max altitude: 46.9°
Azimuth: 278.4°