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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:17
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κ Fornacis (kappa Fornacis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 6:03 | Tran: 9:48 | Set: 13:33
Alt: 1.93°   Az: 226.52°   Direction: South-West

κ Fornacis is a hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Fornax.

κ Fornacis visual magnitude is 5.2. Because of its faintness, κ Fornacis is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of κ Fornacis (kappa Fornacis) star
DSS2 image of κ Fornacis. The red arrow shows the motion of κ Fornacis during the next 1000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.03 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 23m 42s
-23° 42’ 05”
03h 29m 28s
05h 53m 10s

J2000

02h 22m 32s
-23° 48’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

208.85°
-69.21°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for κ Fornacis (kappa Fornacis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.2
Hypergiant

3.49
G0V
5968K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where κ Fornacis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

κ Fornacis is distant 71.49 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

21.93
71.49
18 km/s
0.2 arcsec/y
-0.062"/y

Alternative Designations

κ Fornacis
(kappa Fornacis)
SAO167736
SAO167736

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 113.7°
Max altitude: 14.8°
Azimuth: 246.3°