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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:13 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:39
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5 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:15 | Tran: 17:40 | Set: 1:08
Alt: 46.65°   Az: 227.86°   Direction: South-West

5 Cancri is a main-sequence star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Cancer.

5 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.99. Because of its faintness, 5 Cancri 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 5 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 5 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 5 Cancri during the next 100000 years (6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 02m 56s
+16° 23’ 00”
02h 08m 10s
10h 11m 06s

J2000

08h 01m 30s
+16° 27’ 19”

Galactic Coordinates

205.43°
22.71°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.99
Main-sequence

0.19
B9V
10382K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 5 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 5 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

5 Cancri is distant 471.78 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 12 kilometers per second.

144.72
471.78
-12 km/s
0.004 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97485
SAO97485

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 5 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 73.6°
Max altitude: 54.9°
Azimuth: 286.4°