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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:14
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67 Cancri

Below the horizon.  Rise: 14:35 | Tran: 23:18 | Set: 8:05
Alt: -10.43°   Az: 353.08°   Direction: North

67 Cancri is a double main-sequence star of spectral class A8 in the constellation of Cancer.

67 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.07. Because of its faintness, 67 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 67 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 67 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 67 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-9.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -12.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 03m 18s
+27° 48’ 09”
11h 29m 12s
20h 32m 30s

J2000

09h 01m 48s
+27° 54’ 10”

Galactic Coordinates

197.94°
39.58°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 67 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.07
Main-sequence

2.23
A8V
10125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 67 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 67 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

67 Cancri is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 67 Cancri double sysyem:

6.07
8.87
2.8
103.5 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

67 Cancri is distant 191.43 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 12 kilometers per second.

58.72
191.43
12 km/s
-0.056 arcsec/y
-0.076"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO80585
SAO80585

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 67 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 62.2°
Max altitude: 66.3°
Azimuth: 297.8°