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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 13:05 
Sunset: 21:11
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ε Piscium (epsilon Piscium)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 23:56 | Tran: 6:38 | Set: 13:17
Alt: -3.65°   Az: 287.74°   Direction: West-North-West

ε Piscium is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Pisces.

ε Piscium visual magnitude is 4.28. Because of its moderate brightness, ε 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 ε Piscium (epsilon Piscium) star
DSS2 image of ε Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of ε Piscium during the next 10000 years (-13.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 3.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 04m 16s
+08° 01’ 36”
07h 05m 06s
08h 09m 22s

J2000

01h 02m 56s
+07° 53’ 23”

Galactic Coordinates

127.89°
-54.87°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for ε Piscium (epsilon Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.28
Hypergiant

0.45
K0III
4841K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ε Piscium is distant 190.20 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

58.34
190.20
7 km/s
-0.078 arcsec/y
0.023"/y

Alternative Designations

ε Piscium
(epsilon Piscium)
SAO109627
SAO109627

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 82.0°
Max altitude: 46.5°
Azimuth: 278.0°