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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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44 Ceti

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:38 | Tran: 9:56 | Set: 15:14
Alt: -25.41°   Az: 290.68°   Direction: West-North-West

44 Ceti is a variable and double hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Cetus.

44 Ceti visual magnitude is 6.21. Because of its faintness, 44 Ceti 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 44 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 44 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 44 Ceti during the next 1000 years (2.90 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 25m 18s
-07° 52’ 32”
08h 05m 47s
09h 31m 06s

J2000

01h 24m 02s
-08° 00’ 27”

Galactic Coordinates

146.42°
-69.38°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 44 Ceti.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.21
Hypergiant

2.07
F0V
7938K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 44 Ceti is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 44 Ceti. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

44 Ceti 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 44 Ceti double sysyem:

6.21
10.91
4.7
84.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

44 Ceti is distant 219.82 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

67.43
219.82
6 km/s
0.174 arcsec/y
-0.07"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO129275
SAO129275

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 44 Ceti rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 97.9°
Max altitude: 30.6°
Azimuth: 262.1°