Its story
24 Cnc has a visual magnitude of about 6.90: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for 24 Cnc: right ascension 8h 26m 40s, declination +24° 32′ 2″ (J2000), in the region of the Cancer constellation (IAU figure Cnc).
24 Cnc. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 41389, HD 71152, Gaia DR3 678725508467083008. In the SkyKeepsake Cancer (Cnc) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 41389
- Right ascension
- 8h 26m 40s
- Declination
- +24° 32′ 02″
- Magnitude
- 6.90
- Distance
- ≈ 226 ly
Data: gaia-dr3