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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:12 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:41
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43 Sagittarii

Below the horizon.  Rise: 0:33 | Tran: 4:54 | Set: 9:11
Alt: -3.36°   Az: 116.58°   Direction: East-South-East

43 Sagittarii is a bright giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

43 Sagittarii visual magnitude is 4.96. Because of its moderate brightness, 43 Sagittarii is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 43 Sagittarii star
DSS2 image of 43 Sagittarii. The red arrow shows the motion of 43 Sagittarii during the next 10000 years (-2.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

19h 19m 07s
-18° 54’ 20”
19h 17m 16s
14h 36m 23s

J2000

19h 17m 38s
-18° 57’ 11”

Galactic Coordinates

18.61°
-14.13°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.96
Bright giant

-1.12
G8II
4695K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 43 Sagittarii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 43 Sagittarii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

43 Sagittarii is distant 535.30 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

164.20
535.30
15 km/s
-0.012 arcsec/y
-0.014"/y

Alternative Designations

43 Sagittarii
SAO162413
SAO162413

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 43 Sagittarii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 108.9°
Max altitude: 19.6°
Azimuth: 251.1°