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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:19 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:09
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60 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 16:27 | Tran: 23:24 | Set: 6:25
Alt: 8.23°   Az: 278.20°   Direction: West

60 Cancri is a variable giant star of spectral class K5 in the constellation of Cancer.

60 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.41. Because of its faintness, 60 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 60 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 60 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 60 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 57m 17s
+11° 31’ 43”
06h 04m 59s
15h 02m 16s

J2000

08h 55m 55s
+11° 37’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

216.45°
32.85°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 60 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.41
Giant

-0.85
K5
3855K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 60 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 60 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

60 Cancri is distant 582.14 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 24 kilometers per second.

178.57
582.14
24 km/s
-0.01 arcsec/y
-0.01"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO98235
SAO98235

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 60 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 78.5°
Max altitude: 50.0°
Azimuth: 281.5°