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37 Cancri

Altitude: 43.0°   Azimuth: 143.8°   Direction: South-East

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

37 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.53. Because of its reltive faintness, 37 Cancri should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about 37 Cancri:

6.53
Main-sequence

37 Cancri is above the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt.

Altitude: 43.0°
Azimuth: 143.8°
Direction: South-East

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of 37 Cancri

37 Cancri is situated close to the celestial equator, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of 37 Cancri are provided in the following table:

08h 38m 05s
+09° 34’ 28”
216.42°
28.01°
Cancer

The simplified sky map below shows the position of 37 Cancri in the sky:

Finder chart 37 Cancri star
Simplified finder chart for 37 Cancri.

Visibility of 37 Cancri from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

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

Azimuth: 80.4°
Max altitude: 48.1°
Azimuth: 279.6°
37 Cancri is above the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Digitized Sky Survey image of 37 Cancri

The image below is a photograph of 37 Cancri from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of 37 Cancri is -0.039 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.007 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

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);

Distance of 37 Cancri from the Sun and relative movement

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 pc
373.00 ly
28 km/s
-0.039 arcsec/year
-0.007 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of 37 Cancri

37 Cancri belongs to spectral class A1 and has a luminosity class of V corresponding to a main-sequence star.

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

Alternative designations of 37 Cancri

SAO116975
SAO116975