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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:03 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:50
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16 Scorpii

Below the horizon.  Rise: 20:07 | Tran: 1:25 | Set: 6:40
Alt: -2.94°   Az: 259.86°   Direction: West

16 Scorpii is a main-sequence star of spectral class A4 in the constellation of Scorpius.

16 Scorpii visual magnitude is 5.43. Because of its faintness, 16 Scorpii 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 16 Scorpii star
DSS2 image of 16 Scorpii. The red arrow shows the motion of 16 Scorpii during the next 10000 years (7.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 13m 29s
-08° 36’ 40”
05h 35m 27s
21h 48m 57s

J2000

16h 12m 07s
-08° 32’ 50”

Galactic Coordinates

3.92°
29.73°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.43
Main-sequence

1.01
A4V
8839K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 16 Scorpii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 16 Scorpii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

16 Scorpii is distant 249.81 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

76.63
249.81
5 km/s
0.042 arcsec/y
0.003"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO141024
SAO141024

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 16 Scorpii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 98.6°
Max altitude: 29.9°
Azimuth: 261.4°