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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:54
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52 Hydrae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:29 | Tran: 23:26 | Set: 2:27
Alt: 3.28°   Az: 209.95°   Direction: South-South-West

52 Hydrae is a variable and multiple main-sequence star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Hydra.

52 Hydrae visual magnitude is 4.97. Because of its moderate brightness, 52 Hydrae 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 52 Hydrae star
DSS2 image of 52 Hydrae. The red arrow shows the motion of 52 Hydrae during the next 10000 years (-4.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

14h 29m 40s
-29° 36’ 15”
02h 19m 54s
16h 49m 34s

J2000

14h 28m 10s
-29° 29’ 30”

Galactic Coordinates

326.95°
28.83°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 52 Hydrae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.97
Main-sequence

-0.56
B8V
11092K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 52 Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 52 Hydrae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

52 Hydrae is distant 415.29 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

127.39
415.29
16 km/s
-0.024 arcsec/y
-0.023"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO182570
SAO182570

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 52 Hydrae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 119.6°
Max altitude: 8.9°
Azimuth: 240.4°