Rho Piscium

Rho Piscium
Location of ρ Piscium (circled)


Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0
Constellation	Pisces
Right ascension	01^h 26^m 15.28^s
Declination	+19° 10' 20.4"
Apparent magnitude (V)	+5.35
Distance	85 ly (26 pc)
Spectral type	F2V:var
Other designations
ρ Piscium, ρ Psc, Rho Psc, 93 Piscium, BD+18°187, GC 1733, HD 8723, HIP 6706, HR 413, PPM 117332, SAO 92436.

Rho Piscium (Rho Psc, ρ Piscium, ρ Psc) is a yellowish white F-type main sequence star with an apparent magnitude of +5.35. It is approximately 85 light years from Earth. The star's age is estimated to be 1.4 billion years but is certainly no less than 600 million years and no greater than 1.9 billion years.

Rho Piscium is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 8.4 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 23,500 and 32,900 light years from the center of the Galaxy.^[1]

Rho Piscium will come closest to the Sun 2.7 million years from now when it will brighten to magnitude 3.41 from a distance of 34 light years.^[1]

Naming

In Chinese, 右更 (Yòu Gèng), meaning Official in Charge of the Pasturing, refers to an asterism consisting of refers to an asterism consisting of ρ Piscium, η Piscium, π Piscium, ο Piscium and 104 Piscium. Consequently, ρ Piscium itself is known as 右更一 (Yòu Gèng yī, English: the First Star of Official in Charge of the Pasturing.)^[2]

References

Stars of Pisces

Bayer	α (Alrescha) β (Fum al Samakah) γ δ ε ζ η (Kullat Nunu) θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο (Torcularis Septentrionalis) π ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ¹ ψ² ψ³ ω

Flamsteed	1 2 3 5 7 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 51 52 53 54 55 57 58 59 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 68 70 72 73 75 76 77 78 80 82 87 88 89 91 92 94 95 96 97 100 101 103 104 105 107 109 112 4 Cet 5 Cet

Variable	R Y RU RV RZ SS SV SZ TX (19) TY UV UZ VY (3 Ari) VZ WW WX WZ XZ AO AQ AR AY AZ BE BK BR BT BU CY DT DV DZ EO FL GU

HR	2 29 67 69 94 107 141 145 161 222 243 259 276 277 303 341 344 356 371 374 397 407 426 450 457 484 527 8730 8734 8735 8738 8751 8776 8785 8897 8983 9015

HD	26 1502 2358 4203 4313 5418 5891 7107 8574 8733 9496 9986 10262 12730 217590 217786 218566 219188 224690

Gliese	GJ 1286 GJ 3076 GJ 3128

Other	Bond's flare star CS 22949-037 Feige 110 G 29-38 2MASS 0036+1821 NGC 33 NGC 46 PG 0014+067 PG 0122+200 PSR J0030+0451 1RXS J232953.9+062814 SIMP J013656.5+093347 van Maanen 2 WASP-28 WASP-32

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