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ι Piscis Austrini (iota Piscis Austrini)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 18:49 | Tran: 21:10 | Set: 23:32
Alt: -24.82°   Az: 112.34°   Direction: East-South-East

ι Piscis Austrini is a double hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.

ι Piscis Austrini visual magnitude is 4.34. Because of its moderate brightness, ι 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 ι Piscis Austrini (iota Piscis Austrini) star
DSS2 image of ι Piscis Austrini. The red arrow shows the motion of ι Piscis Austrini during the next 1000 years (0.57 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.57 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 46m 24s
-32° 54’ 39”
18h 02m 19s
15h 48m 44s

J2000

21h 44m 56s
-33° 01’ 32”

Galactic Coordinates

12.88°
-49.55°

Finder Chart

Finder chart ι Piscis Austrini (iota Piscis Austrini) star
Simplified finder chart for ι Piscis Austrini (iota Piscis Austrini).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.34
Hypergiant

0.35
A0V
10795K

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

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

Star System Properties

ι Piscis Austrini 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 ι Piscis Austrini double sysyem:

4.34
11.34
7
20 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ι Piscis Austrini is distant 204.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

62.77
204.65
2 km/s
0.034 arcsec/y
-0.094"/y

Alternative Designations

ι Piscis Austrini
(iota Piscis Austrini)
9 Piscis Austrini
SAO213258
SAO213258

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 122.9°
Max altitude: 5.6°
Azimuth: 237.1°