We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:06 
Transit: 12:13 
Sunset: 17:21
wb_twilight   (Astronomical Twilight)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Libra » 

12 Librae

Below the horizon.  Rise: 1:20 | Tran: 4:58 | Set: 8:35
Alt: -56.02°   Az: 48.60°   Direction: North-East

12 Librae is a giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Libra.

12 Librae visual magnitude is 5.3. Because of its faintness, 12 Librae 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 12 Librae star
DSS2 image of 12 Librae. The red arrow shows the motion of 12 Librae during the next 10000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

14h 55m 48s
-24° 44’ 35”
13h 49m 59s
04h 45m 47s

J2000

14h 54m 20s
-24° 38’ 31”

Galactic Coordinates

335.49°
30.35°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for 12 Librae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.3
Giant

-0.06
K2III
4086K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 12 Librae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 12 Librae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

12 Librae is distant 384.43 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

117.92
384.43
9 km/s
-0.01 arcsec/y
-0.027"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO182983
SAO182983

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 12 Librae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 114.7°
Max altitude: 13.8°
Azimuth: 245.3°