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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:02 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:51
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48 Piscium

Above the horizon.  Rise: 2:11 | Tran: 9:36 | Set: 17:01
Alt: 18.50°   Az: 273.61°   Direction: West

48 Piscium is a giant star of spectral class K5 in the constellation of Pisces.

48 Piscium visual magnitude is 6.06. Because of its faintness, 48 Piscium 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 48 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 48 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 48 Piscium during the next 10000 years (3.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 29m 32s
+16° 35’ 06”
05h 23m 46s
05h 53m 18s

J2000

00h 28m 12s
+16° 26’ 42”

Galactic Coordinates

114.89°
-46.06°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.06
Giant

-1.61
K5III
3677K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 48 Piscium is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 48 Piscium. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

48 Piscium is distant 1,112.63 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

341.30
1,112.63
-7 km/s
0.019 arcsec/y
-0.015"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO91912
SAO91912

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 48 Piscium rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 73.4°
Max altitude: 55.1°
Azimuth: 286.6°