Piautos - λ Cancri (lambda Cancri)

Above the horizon. Rise: 23:35 | Tran: 7:52 | Set: 16:05

Alt: 14.33° Az: 290.59° Direction: West-North-West

Piautos, also designated as λ Cancri (lambda Cancri), is a main-sequence star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Cancer.

Piautos visual magnitude is 5.98. Because of its faintness, Piautos 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 Piautos - λ Cancri (lambda Cancri) star

DSS2 image of Piautos. The red arrow shows the motion of Piautos during the next 10000 years (-3.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

Right Ascension 08h 22m 00s

Declination +23° 56’ 32”

Hour Angle 06h 28m 15s

Sidereal Time 14h 50m 15s

J2000

Right Ascension 08h 20m 32s

Declination +24° 01’ 19”

Galactic Coordinates

Galactic Longitude 199.33°

Galactic Latitude 29.59°

Finder Chart

Simplified finder chart for Piautos - λ Cancri (lambda Cancri).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

Color ⬤

Magnitude 5.98

Class Main-sequence

Absolute magnitude 0.43

Spectral Type B9V

Color Index (B-V) -0.03

Temperature 10516K

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

H-R diagram showing the position of Piautos. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Piautos is distant 419.02 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

Distance (parsec) 128.53

Distance (light year) 419.02

Radial Speed 23 km/s

Proper Motion RA -0.023 arcsec/y

Proper Motion Dec -0.021"/y

Alternative Designations

Proper Name Piautos

Bayer designation λ Cancri
(lambda Cancri)

Flamsteed designation 19 Cancri

Henry Draper Catalogue HD70011

SAO Catalogue SAO80113

Hipparcos Catalogue HIP40881

Durchmusterung Catalogue BD+24 1909

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 66.1° RISE 23:35

Max altitude: 62.5° TRANSIT 7:52

Azimuth: 293.9° SET 16:05

Set Location

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