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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:13 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:39
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48 Leonis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:40 | Tran: 20:12 | Set: 2:49
Alt: 33.28°   Az: 233.39°   Direction: South-West

48 Leonis is a giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Leo.

48 Leonis visual magnitude is 5.08. Because of its faintness, 48 Leonis 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 48 Leonis star
DSS2 image of 48 Leonis. The red arrow shows the motion of 48 Leonis during the next 1000 years (-1.70 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.93 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 36m 07s
+06° 49’ 18”
02h 50m 05s
13h 26m 12s

J2000

10h 34m 48s
+06° 57’ 12”

Galactic Coordinates

238.51°
51.84°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 48 Leonis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.08
Giant

0.13
G8III
4892K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 48 Leonis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 48 Leonis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

48 Leonis is distant 318.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

97.75
318.67
5 km/s
-0.102 arcsec/y
0.056"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO118376
SAO118376

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 48 Leonis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 83.2°
Max altitude: 45.3°
Azimuth: 276.8°