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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:05 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:48
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23 Librae

Below the horizon.  Rise: 20:55 | Tran: 0:27 | Set: 4:03
Alt: -31.21°   Az: 267.47°   Direction: West

23 Librae is a main-sequence star of spectral class G4 in the constellation of Libra.

23 Librae visual magnitude is 6.45. Because of its faintness, 23 Librae 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 23 Librae star
DSS2 image of 23 Librae. The red arrow shows the motion of 23 Librae during the next 1000 years (-6.63 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.18 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 14m 58s
-25° 24’ 09”
07h 15m 44s
22h 30m 43s

J2000

15h 13m 28s
-25° 18’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

339.19°
27.38°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 23 Librae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.45
Main-sequence

4.40
G4V
5602K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 23 Librae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 23 Librae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

23 Librae is distant 83.63 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

25.65
83.63
3 km/s
-0.398 arcsec/y
-0.071"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO183275
SAO183275
Gl 579.4

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 23 Librae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 115.4°
Max altitude: 13.1°
Azimuth: 244.6°