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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:46 
Transit: 12:58 
Sunset: 21:11
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ι Cancri (iota Cancri)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:56 | Tran: 16:46 | Set: 1:41
Alt: 45.25°   Az: 260.03°   Direction: West

ι Cancri is a variable and double giant star of spectral class G7 in the constellation of Cancer.

ι Cancri visual magnitude is 4.02. Because of its moderate brightness, ι Cancri 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 ι Cancri (iota Cancri) star
DSS2 image of ι Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of ι Cancri during the next 10000 years (-4.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 48m 13s
+28° 39’ 55”
03h 28m 50s
12h 17m 04s

J2000

08h 46m 41s
+28° 45’ 36”

Galactic Coordinates

195.88°
36.54°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for ι Cancri (iota Cancri).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.02
Giant

-0.78
G7III
4719K

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

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

Star System Properties

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

4.02
6.52
2.5
30.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ι Cancri is distant 297.99 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

91.41
297.99
16 km/s
-0.025 arcsec/y
-0.042"/y

Alternative Designations

ι Cancri
(iota Cancri)
SAO80416
SAO80416

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 61.3°
Max altitude: 67.2°
Azimuth: 298.7°