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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:58 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:55
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37 Cancri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:47 | Tran: 17:33 | Set: 0:19
Alt: -17.72°   Az: 47.23°   Direction: North-East

37 Cancri is a main-sequence star of spectral class A1 in the constellation of Cancer.

37 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.53. Because of its faintness, 37 Cancri is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of 37 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 37 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 37 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-6.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 39m 27s
+09° 29’ 03”
15h 00m 34s
23h 40m 02s

J2000

08h 38m 05s
+09° 34’ 28”

Galactic Coordinates

216.42°
28.01°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.53
Main-sequence

1.24
A1V
10382K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 37 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 37 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

37 Cancri is distant 373.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 28 kilometers per second.

114.42
373.00
28 km/s
-0.039 arcsec/y
-0.007"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO116975
SAO116975

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 37 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 80.5°
Max altitude: 48.0°
Azimuth: 279.5°