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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:15 
Transit: 11:44 
Sunset: 16:12
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13 Leonis Minoris

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:06 | Tran: 6:12 | Set: 16:15
Alt: 72.53°   Az: 157.73°   Direction: South-South-East

13 Leonis Minoris is a main-sequence star of spectral class F3 in the constellation of Leo Minor.

13 Leonis Minoris visual magnitude is 6.14. Because of its faintness, 13 Leonis Minoris 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 13 Leonis Minoris star
DSS2 image of 13 Leonis Minoris. The red arrow shows the motion of 13 Leonis Minoris during the next 10000 years (-3.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 44m 12s
+34° 58’ 43”
23h 28m 04s
09h 12m 16s

J2000

09h 42m 42s
+35° 05’ 35”

Galactic Coordinates

189.66°
49.21°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 13 Leonis Minoris star
Simplified finder chart for 13 Leonis Minoris.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.14
Main-sequence

2.51
F3V
7101K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 13 Leonis Minoris is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 13 Leonis Minoris. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

13 Leonis Minoris is distant 173.77 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 8 kilometers per second.

53.30
173.77
-8 km/s
-0.021 arcsec/y
-0.052"/y

Alternative Designations

13 Leonis Minoris
SAO61648
SAO61648

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 13 Leonis Minoris rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 55.0°
Max altitude: 73.5°
Azimuth: 305.0°