We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:27 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:01
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Virgo » 

54 Virginis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 23:40 | Tran: 4:00 | Set: 8:17
Alt: 6.83°   Az: 132.52°   Direction: South-East

54 Virginis is a double giant star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Virgo.

54 Virginis visual magnitude is 6.28. Because of its faintness, 54 Virginis 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 54 Virginis star
DSS2 image of 54 Virginis. The red arrow shows the motion of 54 Virginis during the next 10000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

13h 14m 47s
-18° 57’ 33”
20h 37m 11s
09h 51m 59s

J2000

13h 13m 26s
-18° 49’ 36”

Galactic Coordinates

310.15°
43.74°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for 54 Virginis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.28
Giant

-1.71
B9III
9125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 54 Virginis is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 54 Virginis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

54 Virginis is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 54 Virginis double sysyem:

6.28
6.68
0.4
5.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

54 Virginis is distant 1,293.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 41 kilometers per second.

396.83
1,293.65
-41 km/s
-0.02 arcsec/y
-0.017"/y

Alternative Designations

54 Virginis
SAO157798
SAO157798

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 54 Virginis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 109.0°
Max altitude: 19.6°
Azimuth: 251.0°