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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:18
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41 Capricorni

Below the horizon.  Rise: 1:11 | Tran: 5:00 | Set: 8:49
Alt: -57.23°   Az: 321.76°   Direction: North-West

41 Capricorni is a double giant star of spectral class G9 in the constellation of Capricornus.

41 Capricorni visual magnitude is 5.24. Because of its faintness, 41 Capricorni 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 41 Capricorni star
DSS2 image of 41 Capricorni. The red arrow shows the motion of 41 Capricorni during the next 1000 years (1.70 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.48 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 43m 27s
-23° 08’ 44”
10h 34m 31s
08h 17m 59s

J2000

21h 42m 00s
-23° 15’ 46”

Galactic Coordinates

27.21°
-47.22°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 41 Capricorni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.24
Giant

0.84
G9III
4866K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 41 Capricorni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 41 Capricorni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

41 Capricorni is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 41 Capricorni double sysyem:

5.24
11.44
6.2
5.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

41 Capricorni is distant 247.34 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 44 kilometers per second.

75.87
247.34
-44 km/s
0.102 arcsec/y
-0.089"/y

Alternative Designations

41 Capricorni
SAO190559
SAO190559

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 41 Capricorni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 113.1°
Max altitude: 15.4°
Azimuth: 246.9°