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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:56 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:58
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50 Persei

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:40 | Tran: 12:57 | Set: 0:13
Alt: 24.08°   Az: 58.40°   Direction: East-North-East

50 Persei is a main-sequence star of spectral class F7 in the constellation of Perseus.

50 Persei visual magnitude is 5.51. Because of its faintness, 50 Persei 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 50 Persei star
DSS2 image of 50 Persei. The red arrow shows the motion of 50 Persei during the next 1000 years (2.78 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.37 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 10m 18s
+38° 06’ 19”
17h 24m 50s
21h 35m 08s

J2000

04h 08m 36s
+38° 02’ 22”

Galactic Coordinates

160.27°
-10.15°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.51
Main-sequence

3.86
F7V
6576K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 50 Persei is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 50 Persei. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

50 Persei is distant 69.55 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 25 kilometers per second.

21.34
69.55
25 km/s
0.167 arcsec/y
-0.202"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO57006
SAO57006
Gl 161.1

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 50 Persei rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 51.9°
Max altitude: 76.6°
Azimuth: 308.1°