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υ1 Cancri (upsilon1 Cancri)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 14:54 | Tran: 23:07 | Set: 7:25
Alt: -7.38°   Az: 34.80°   Direction: North-East

υ1 Cancri is a hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Cancer.

υ1 Cancri visual magnitude is 5.75. Because of its faintness, υ1 Cancri 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 υ1 Cancri (upsilon1 Cancri) star
DSS2 image of υ1 Cancri. The red arrow shows the motion of υ1 Cancri during the next 10000 years (-13.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 32m 59s
+23° 59’ 41”
14h 33m 07s
23h 06m 07s

J2000

08h 31m 30s
+24° 04’ 51”

Galactic Coordinates

200.19°
31.98°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for υ1 Cancri (upsilon1 Cancri).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.75
Hypergiant

1.44
F0III
7591K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where υ1 Cancri is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of υ1 Cancri. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

υ1 Cancri is distant 237.09 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 19 kilometers per second.

72.73
237.09
19 km/s
-0.082 arcsec/y
-0.044"/y

Alternative Designations

υ1 Cancri
(upsilon1 Cancri)
SAO80229
SAO80229

Visibility from Your Location

Today's υ1 Cancri (upsilon1 Cancri) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 66.0°
Max altitude: 62.5°
Azimuth: 294.0°