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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
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δ Piscium (delta Piscium)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:15 | Tran: 9:52 | Set: 16:30
Alt: 29.63°   Az: 117.80°   Direction: East-South-East

δ Piscium is a double giant star of spectral class K4 in the constellation of Pisces.

δ Piscium visual magnitude is 4.43. Because of its moderate brightness, δ Piscium 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 δ Piscium (delta Piscium) star
DSS2 image of δ Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of δ Piscium during the next 10000 years (14.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 50m 00s
+07° 43’ 23”
20h 36m 26s
21h 26m 26s

J2000

00h 48m 41s
+07° 35’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

121.73°
-55.28°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for δ Piscium (delta Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.43
Giant

-0.43
K4III
3794K

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

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

Star System Properties

δ Piscium is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the δ Piscium double sysyem:

4.43
13.03
8.6
113.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

δ Piscium is distant 304.96 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 32 kilometers per second.

93.55
304.96
32 km/s
0.085 arcsec/y
-0.052"/y

Alternative Designations

δ Piscium
(delta Piscium)
SAO109474
SAO109474

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 82.3°
Max altitude: 46.2°
Azimuth: 277.7°