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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:07 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:45
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ι Ceti (iota Ceti)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:29 | Tran: 9:43 | Set: 14:57
Alt: -10.71°   Az: 269.48°   Direction: West

ι Ceti is a variable and multiple giant star of spectral class K1 in the constellation of Cetus.

ι Ceti visual magnitude is 3.56. Because of its moderate brightness, ι Ceti 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 Ceti (iota Ceti) star
DSS2 image of ι Ceti. The red arrow shows the motion of ι Ceti during the next 10000 years (-2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 20m 43s
-08° 40’ 59”
06h 25m 16s
06h 46m 00s

J2000

00h 19m 25s
-08° 49’ 26”

Galactic Coordinates

98.98°
-70.19°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for ι Ceti (iota Ceti).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.56
Giant

-1.18
K1III
4270K

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

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

Star System Properties

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

3.56
8.36
4.8
108.8 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ι Ceti is distant 289.52 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 19 kilometers per second.

88.81
289.52
19 km/s
-0.014 arcsec/y
-0.036"/y

Alternative Designations

ι Ceti
(iota Ceti)
SAO128694
SAO128694

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 98.7°
Max altitude: 29.8°
Azimuth: 261.3°