Star profile
20 Piscium
What is 20 Piscium
20 Piscium is a yellow G-type star 317 light-years away, in the long southern cord of Pisces. Its colour and temperature mirror the Sun's, yet distance reduces its light to a barely visible point at magnitude 5.49. To watch it is to glimpse a distant echo of our own star —the same golden hue seen across the moat of time and space.
Where it is and when to see it
20 Piscium lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 36° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 47° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 59° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 87° N.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 79 stars of Pisces in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpherg, the brightest: it lies about 31° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 320 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 20 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.49
- Distance
- 316.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 356.986° · Dec -2.762°
- Catalogue
- HIP 117375 · HD 223252
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- 5 Piscium5.42
- 2 Piscium5.43
- 68 Piscium5.44
- Sigma Piscium5.50
- 94 Piscium5.50