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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:02 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:51
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κ Piscium (kappa Piscium)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 2:30 | Tran: 8:35 | Set: 14:40
Alt: 9.87°   Az: 259.69°   Direction: West

κ Piscium is a variable and multiple hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Pisces.

κ Piscium visual magnitude is 4.94. Because of its moderate brightness, κ 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 κ Piscium (kappa Piscium) star
DSS2 image of κ Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of κ Piscium during the next 1000 years (1.48 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.62 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 28m 13s
+01° 23’ 43”
05h 03m 18s
04h 31m 32s

J2000

23h 26m 56s
+01° 15’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

83.92°
-55.08°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for κ Piscium (kappa Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.94
Hypergiant
κ Piscium is also a CrSiSr chemically peculiar star.

1.46
A0
9766K

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

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

Star System Properties

κ 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 κ Piscium double sysyem:

4.94
11.94
7
163.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

κ Piscium is distant 162.03 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

49.70
162.03
-3 km/s
0.089 arcsec/y
-0.097"/y

Alternative Designations

κ Piscium
(kappa Piscium)
SAO128186
SAO128186

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 88.6°
Max altitude: 39.9°
Azimuth: 271.4°