We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:16 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:12
sunny   (Daytime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Leo Minor » 

22 Leonis Minoris

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:18 | Tran: 0:39 | Set: 9:55
Alt: -5.56°   Az: 344.04°   Direction: North-North-West

22 Leonis Minoris is a giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Leo Minor.

22 Leonis Minoris visual magnitude is 6.46. Because of its faintness, 22 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 22 Leonis Minoris star
DSS2 image of 22 Leonis Minoris. The red arrow shows the motion of 22 Leonis Minoris during the next 10000 years (-6.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 16m 32s
+31° 20’ 32”
10h 45m 15s
21h 01m 47s

J2000

10h 15m 06s
+31° 28’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

196.1°
55.82°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for 22 Leonis Minoris.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.46
Giant

-0.39
G8III
10125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 22 Leonis Minoris is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 22 Leonis Minoris. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

22 Leonis Minoris is distant 763.47 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

234.19
763.47
15 km/s
-0.037 arcsec/y
-0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

22 Leonis Minoris
SAO61953
SAO61953

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 22 Leonis Minoris rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 58.7°
Max altitude: 69.9°
Azimuth: 301.3°