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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:03 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:50
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40 Persei

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:05 | Tran: 12:54 | Set: 22:43
Alt: 27.66°   Az: 69.12°   Direction: East-North-East

40 Persei is a double hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Perseus.

40 Persei visual magnitude is 4.97. Because of its moderate brightness, 40 Persei is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 40 Persei star
DSS2 image of 40 Persei. The red arrow shows the motion of 40 Persei during the next 100000 years (-8.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -15.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 43m 59s
+34° 02’ 39”
18h 11m 39s
21h 55m 38s

J2000

03h 42m 22s
+33° 57’ 54”

Galactic Coordinates

158.92°
-16.7°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.97
Hypergiant

-2.29
B0V
10252K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 40 Persei is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 40 Persei. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

40 Persei 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 40 Persei double sysyem:

4.97
9.97
5
20 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

40 Persei is distant 923.51 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

283.29
923.51
20 km/s
-0.005 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO56646
SAO56646

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 40 Persei rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 56.0°
Max altitude: 72.6°
Azimuth: 304.0°