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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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13 Scorpii

Below the horizon.  Rise: 22:18 | Tran: 1:33 | Set: 4:45
Alt: -57.20°   Az: 56.07°   Direction: North-East

13 Scorpii is a main-sequence star of spectral class B2 in the constellation of Scorpius.

13 Scorpii visual magnitude is 4.59. Because of its moderate brightness, 13 Scorpii 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 13 Scorpii star
DSS2 image of 13 Scorpii. The red arrow shows the motion of 13 Scorpii during the next 10000 years (-2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 13m 52s
-27° 59’ 23”
14h 02m 23s
06h 16m 16s

J2000

16h 12m 18s
-27° 55’ 35”

Galactic Coordinates

348.12°
16.84°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.59
Main-sequence

-1.19
B2V
12692K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

13 Scorpii is distant 467.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

143.47
467.72
10 km/s
-0.013 arcsec/y
-0.025"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO184221
SAO184221

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 118.0°
Max altitude: 10.5°
Azimuth: 242.0°