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48 Virginis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 21:24 | Tran: 3:07 | Set: 8:46
Alt: -4.43°   Az: 90.53°   Direction: East

48 Virginis is a double hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Virgo.

48 Virginis visual magnitude is 6.59. Because of its faintness, 48 Virginis is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of 48 Virginis star
DSS2 image of 48 Virginis. The red arrow shows the motion of 48 Virginis during the next 10000 years (-5.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

13h 05m 12s
-03° 47’ 51”
17h 50m 36s
06h 55m 48s

J2000

13h 03m 54s
-03° 39’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

308.99°
59.06°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.59
Hypergiant

1.11
F0V
7526K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 48 Virginis is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

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

Star System Properties

48 Virginis is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 48 Virginis double sysyem:

6.59
6.89
0.3
0.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

48 Virginis is distant 407.50 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

125.00
407.50
3 km/s
-0.035 arcsec/y
-0.036"/y

Alternative Designations

48 Virginis
SAO139131
SAO139131

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 93.8°
Max altitude: 34.7°
Azimuth: 266.2°