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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
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54 Eridani

Below the horizon.  Rise: 9:31 | Tran: 13:43 | Set: 17:56
Alt: -18.31°   Az: 98.75°   Direction: East

54 Eridani is a variable and double giant star of spectral class M4 in the constellation of Eridanus.

54 Eridani visual magnitude is 4.32. Because of its moderate brightness, 54 Eridani 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 54 Eridani star
DSS2 image of 54 Eridani. The red arrow shows the motion of 54 Eridani during the next 1000 years (0.35 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.60 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 41m 33s
-19° 37’ 26”
17h 39m 51s
22h 21m 24s

J2000

04h 40m 26s
-19° 40’ 18”

Galactic Coordinates

217.79°
-37.36°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 54 Eridani.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.32
Giant

-0.90
M4III
3635K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 54 Eridani is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 54 Eridani. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

54 Eridani is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 54 Eridani double sysyem:

4.32
4.62
0.3
0.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

54 Eridani is distant 361.02 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 33 kilometers per second.

110.74
361.02
-33 km/s
0.021 arcsec/y
-0.096"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO149818
SAO149818

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 54 Eridani rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 109.6°
Max altitude: 18.9°
Azimuth: 250.4°