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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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17 Librae

Below the horizon.  Rise: 18:28 | Tran: 23:28 | Set: 4:33
Alt: -46.38°   Az: 329.76°   Direction: North-North-West

17 Librae is a main-sequence star of spectral class A1 in the constellation of Libra.

17 Librae visual magnitude is 6.6. Because of its faintness, 17 Librae is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of 17 Librae star
DSS2 image of 17 Librae. The red arrow shows the motion of 17 Librae during the next 10000 years (-1.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

14h 59m 36s
-11° 15’ 19”
10h 36m 59s
01h 36m 36s

J2000

14h 58m 13s
-11° 09’ 17”

Galactic Coordinates

345.93°
40.9°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 17 Librae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.6
Main-sequence

1.29
A1V
10002K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 17 Librae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 17 Librae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

17 Librae is distant 376.01 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

115.34
376.01
-17 km/s
-0.011 arcsec/y
-0.014"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO158935
SAO158935

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 17 Librae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 101.3°
Max altitude: 27.3°
Azimuth: 258.7°