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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:04 
Transit: 13:06 
Sunset: 21:07
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θ Crateris (theta Crateris)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:47 | Tran: 16:55 | Set: 22:02
Alt: 18.66°   Az: 224.20°   Direction: South-West

θ Crateris is a main-sequence star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Crater.

θ Crateris visual magnitude is 4.7. Because of its moderate brightness, θ Crateris 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 θ Crateris (theta Crateris) star
DSS2 image of θ Crateris. The red arrow shows the motion of θ Crateris during the next 10000 years (-10.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 37m 58s
-09° 56’ 37”
02h 48m 27s
14h 26m 26s

J2000

11h 36m 40s
-09° 48’ 07”

Galactic Coordinates

274.25°
48.86°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for θ Crateris (theta Crateris).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.7
Main-sequence

-0.15
B9V
11247K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

θ Crateris is distant 304.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

93.46
304.67
1 km/s
-0.061 arcsec/y
0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

θ Crateris
(theta Crateris)
21 Crateris
SAO138296
SAO138296

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 99.9°
Max altitude: 28.6°
Azimuth: 260.1°