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TimezoneEurope/London
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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:12
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ι Piscium (iota Piscium)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:34 | Tran: 14:01 | Set: 20:28
Alt: 1.20°   Az: 82.25°   Direction: East

ι Piscium is a variable and double main-sequence star of spectral class F7 in the constellation of Pisces.

ι Piscium visual magnitude is 4.13. Because of its moderate brightness, ι 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 ι Piscium (iota Piscium) star
DSS2 image of ι Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of ι Piscium during the next 1000 years (6.30 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.30 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 41m 13s
+05° 45’ 56”
17h 38m 40s
17h 19m 54s

J2000

23h 39m 56s
+05° 37’ 35”

Galactic Coordinates

92.46°
-52.96°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for ι Piscium (iota Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.13
Main-sequence

3.43
F7V
6344K

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

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

Star System Properties

ι 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 ι Piscium double sysyem:

4.13
12.83
8.7
69.9 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ι Piscium is distant 44.96 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

13.79
44.96
5 km/s
0.378 arcsec/y
-0.438"/y

Alternative Designations

ι Piscium
(iota Piscium)
SAO128310
SAO128310

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 84.2°
Max altitude: 44.3°
Azimuth: 275.8°