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Sunset: 20:54
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8 Cancri

Above the horizon.  Rise: 9:58 | Tran: 17:04 | Set: 0:09
Alt: 30.51°   Az: 251.36°   Direction: West-South-West

8 Cancri is a main-sequence star of spectral class A1 in the constellation of Cancer.

8 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.12. Because of its faintness, 8 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 8 Cancri star
DSS2 image of 8 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of 8 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-6.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -11.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 06m 29s
+13° 02’ 39”
03h 47m 41s
11h 54m 10s

J2000

08h 05m 04s
+13° 07’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

209.11°
22.16°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 8 Cancri.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.12
Main-sequence

1.07
A1V
10002K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 8 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 8 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

8 Cancri is distant 210.46 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 21 kilometers per second.

64.56
210.46
21 km/s
-0.036 arcsec/y
-0.067"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO97542
SAO97542

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 8 Cancri rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 77.0°
Max altitude: 51.6°
Azimuth: 283.0°