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79 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:34 | Tran: 18:33 | Set: 2:35
Alt: 38.98°   Az: 255.73°   Direction: West-South-West

79 Cancri is a giant star of spectral class G5 in the constellation of Cancer.

79 Cancri visual magnitude is 6.01. Because of its faintness, 79 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 79 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 79 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 79 Cancri during the next 100000 years (8.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 10.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 11m 48s
+21° 53’ 30”
03h 37m 07s
12h 48m 55s

J2000

09h 10m 20s
+21° 59’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

206.01°
39.86°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.01
Giant

0.46
G5III
4996K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 79 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 79 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

79 Cancri is distant 420.10 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

128.87
420.10
-7 km/s
0.005 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO80674
SAO80674

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 79 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 68.1°
Max altitude: 60.4°
Azimuth: 291.9°