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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:06 
Transit: 12:13 
Sunset: 17:21
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17 Sextantis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 18:55 | Tran: 0:14 | Set: 5:29
Alt: 23.52°   Az: 216.23°   Direction: South-West

17 Sextantis is a main-sequence star of spectral class A1 in the constellation of Sextans.

17 Sextantis visual magnitude is 5.91. Because of its faintness, 17 Sextantis 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 17 Sextantis star
DSS2 image of 17 Sextantis. The red arrow shows the motion of 17 Sextantis during the next 10000 years (-4.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 11m 22s
-08° 31’ 57”
02h 12m 55s
12h 24m 18s

J2000

10h 10m 07s
-08° 24’ 29”

Galactic Coordinates

249.45°
37.19°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.91
Main-sequence

-0.13
A1V
9882K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 17 Sextantis is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

17 Sextantis is distant 526.66 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

161.55
526.66
16 km/s
-0.026 arcsec/y
-0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

17 Sextantis
SAO137385
SAO137385

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 98.5°
Max altitude: 30.0°
Azimuth: 261.5°