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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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υ Piscis Austrini (upsilon Piscis Austrini)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 5:20 | Tran: 7:29 | Set: 9:37
Alt: -20.69°   Az: 241.10°   Direction: West-South-West

υ Piscis Austrini is a giant star of spectral class M1 in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.

υ Piscis Austrini visual magnitude is 4.99. Because of its moderate brightness, υ Piscis Austrini 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 υ Piscis Austrini (upsilon Piscis Austrini) star
DSS2 image of υ Piscis Austrini. The red arrow shows the motion of υ Piscis Austrini during the next 10000 years (1.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

22h 09m 54s
-33° 55’ 07”
05h 22m 56s
03h 32m 51s

J2000

22h 08m 26s
-34° 02’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

11.53°
-54.48°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for υ Piscis Austrini (upsilon Piscis Austrini).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.99
Giant

-1.06
M1III
3824K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where υ Piscis Austrini is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of υ Piscis Austrini. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

υ Piscis Austrini is distant 527.51 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

161.81
527.51
20 km/s
0.008 arcsec/y
-0.049"/y

Alternative Designations

υ Piscis Austrini
(upsilon Piscis Austrini)
SAO213577
SAO213577

Visibility from Your Location

Today's υ Piscis Austrini (upsilon Piscis Austrini) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 123.9°
Max altitude: 4.6°
Azimuth: 236.1°