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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:05 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:48
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46 Ceti

Below the horizon.  Rise: 5:58 | Tran: 10:41 | Set: 15:24
Alt: -15.29°   Az: 265.85°   Direction: West

46 Ceti is a giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Cetus.

46 Ceti visual magnitude is 4.9. Because of its moderate brightness, 46 Ceti 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 46 Ceti star
DSS2 image of 46 Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of 46 Ceti during the next 10000 years (6.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 26m 52s
-14° 28’ 02”
06h 26m 00s
07h 52m 52s

J2000

01h 25m 37s
-14° 35’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

157.07°
-75.16°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 46 Ceti.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.9
Giant

0.17
K2III
4251K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

46 Ceti is distant 288.24 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

88.42
288.24
-23 km/s
0.039 arcsec/y
-0.018"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO147803
SAO147803

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 104.5°
Max altitude: 24.1°
Azimuth: 255.5°