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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:46 
Transit: 12:58 
Sunset: 21:12
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54 Piscium

Above the horizon.  Rise: 0:37 | Tran: 8:36 | Set: 16:32
Alt: 39.92°   Az: 253.28°   Direction: West-South-West

54 Piscium is a variable and double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Pisces.

54 Piscium visual magnitude is 5.87. Because of its faintness, 54 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 54 Piscium star
DSS2 image of 54 Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of 54 Piscium during the next 1000 years (-7.73 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 40m 42s
+21° 23’ 23”
03h 28m 18s
04h 09m 00s

J2000

00h 39m 21s
+21° 15’ 02”

Galactic Coordinates

119.18°
-41.53°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.87
Hypergiant

5.64
K0V
5134K

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

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

Star System Properties

54 Piscium is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 54 Piscium double sysyem:

5.87
10.77
4.9
122 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

54 Piscium is distant 36.21 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 34 kilometers per second.

11.11
36.21
-34 km/s
-0.464 arcsec/y
-0.37"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO74175
SAO74175

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 68.6°
Max altitude: 59.9°
Azimuth: 291.4°