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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:13 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:39
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β Piscis Austrini (beta Piscis Austrini)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 5:41 | Tran: 8:11 | Set: 10:41
Alt: 4.22°   Az: 161.99°   Direction: South-South-East

β Piscis Austrini is a multiple hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.

β Piscis Austrini visual magnitude is 4.29. Because of its moderate brightness, β Piscis Austrini 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 β Piscis Austrini (beta Piscis Austrini) star
DSS2 image of β Piscis Austrini. The red arrow shows the motion of β Piscis Austrini during the next 10000 years (10.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

22h 32m 56s
-32° 12’ 54”
22h 34m 30s
21h 07m 26s

J2000

22h 31m 30s
-32° 20’ 45”

Galactic Coordinates

14.59°
-59.32°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Piscis Austrini (beta Piscis Austrini).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.29
Hypergiant

1.00
A0V
10002K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where β Piscis Austrini is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

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

Star System Properties

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

4.29
7.79
3.5
30.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Piscis Austrini is distant 148.25 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

45.48
148.25
6 km/s
0.065 arcsec/y
-0.018"/y

Alternative Designations

β Piscis Austrini
(beta Piscis Austrini)
17 Piscis Austrini
SAO213883
SAO213883

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 122.2°
Max altitude: 6.3°
Azimuth: 237.8°