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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
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Alkes - α Crateris (alpha Crateris)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:42 | Tran: 20:02 | Set: 0:21
Alt: -55.16°   Az: 336.38°   Direction: North-North-West

Alkes, also designated as α Crateris (alpha Crateris), is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Crater.

Alkes visual magnitude is 4.08. Because of its moderate brightness, Alkes is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of Alkes - α Crateris (alpha Crateris) star
DSS2 image of Alkes. The red arrow shows the motion of Alkes during the next 1000 years (-7.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 2.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 01m 01s
-18° 26’ 07”
11h 04m 09s
22h 05m 11s

J2000

10h 59m 46s
-18° 17’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

269.06°
37.12°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for Alkes - α Crateris (alpha Crateris).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.08
Hypergiant

0.44
K0III
4537K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Alkes is distant 174.24 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 47 kilometers per second.

53.45
174.24
47 km/s
-0.46 arcsec/y
0.13"/y

Alternative Designations

Alkes
α Crateris
(alpha Crateris)
SAO156375
SAO156375

Visibility from Your Location

Today's Alkes - α Crateris (alpha Crateris) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 108.4°
Max altitude: 20.1°
Azimuth: 251.6°