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υ Piscium (upsilon Piscium)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 6:41 | Tran: 15:21 | Set: 0:05
Alt: -9.56°   Az: 343.91°   Direction: North-North-West

υ Piscium is a main-sequence star of spectral class A3 in the constellation of Pisces.

υ Piscium visual magnitude is 4.76. Because of its moderate brightness, υ 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 υ Piscium (upsilon Piscium) star
DSS2 image of υ Piscium. The red arrow shows the motion of υ Piscium during the next 10000 years (4.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 20m 51s
+27° 23’ 44”
10h 48m 17s
12h 09m 08s

J2000

01h 19m 27s
+27° 15’ 51”

Galactic Coordinates

130.56°
-35.19°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for υ Piscium (upsilon Piscium).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.76
Main-sequence

-0.14
A3V
9766K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

υ Piscium is distant 310.77 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 8 kilometers per second.

95.33
310.77
8 km/s
0.025 arcsec/y
-0.013"/y

Alternative Designations

υ Piscium
(upsilon Piscium)
SAO74637
SAO74637

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 62.6°
Max altitude: 65.9°
Azimuth: 297.4°