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46 Capricorni

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:21 | Tran: 6:34 | Set: 11:46
Alt: 16.95°   Az: 130.13°   Direction: South-East

46 Capricorni is a bright giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Capricornus.

46 Capricorni visual magnitude is 5.09. Because of its faintness, 46 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 46 Capricorni star
DSS2 image of 46 Capricorni. The red arrow shows the motion of 46 Capricorni during the next 10000 years (3.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 46m 21s
-08° 57’ 52”
20h 48m 56s
18h 35m 17s

J2000

21h 45m 00s
-09° 04’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

46.17°
-42.51°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.09
Bright giant

-1.86
G8II
4493K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 46 Capricorni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 46 Capricorni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

46 Capricorni is distant 799.02 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

245.10
799.02
-5 km/s
0.021 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

46 Capricorni
SAO145637
SAO145637

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 46 Capricorni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 99.0°
Max altitude: 29.6°
Azimuth: 261.0°