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TimezoneEurope/London
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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:16
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λ Piscium (lambda Piscium)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:48 | Tran: 13:56 | Set: 20:03
Alt: 18.60°   Az: 111.47°   Direction: East-South-East

λ Piscium is a main-sequence star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Pisces.

λ Piscium visual magnitude is 4.5. Because of its moderate brightness, λ 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 λ Piscium (lambda Piscium) star
DSS2 image of λ Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of λ Piscium during the next 1000 years (-2.15 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.58 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 43m 19s
+01° 55’ 10”
19h 52m 13s
19h 35m 33s

J2000

23h 42m 02s
+01° 46’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

90.15°
-56.61°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for λ Piscium (lambda Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.5
Main-sequence

2.05
A7V
8163K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

λ Piscium is distant 100.68 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 12 kilometers per second.

30.88
100.68
12 km/s
-0.129 arcsec/y
-0.155"/y

Alternative Designations

λ Piscium
(lambda Piscium)
SAO128336
SAO128336

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 88.1°
Max altitude: 40.4°
Azimuth: 271.9°