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Sunset: 20:52
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58 Hydrae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:41 | Tran: 23:52 | Set: 3:07
Alt: 2.32°   Az: 216.21°   Direction: South-West

58 Hydrae is a giant star of spectral class K4 in the constellation of Hydra.

58 Hydrae visual magnitude is 4.41. Because of its moderate brightness, 58 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 58 Hydrae star
DSS2 image of 58 Hydrae. The red arrow shows the motion of 58 Hydrae during the next 1000 years (-4.02 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.98 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

14h 51m 47s
-28° 03’ 50”
02h 47m 55s
17h 39m 42s

J2000

14h 50m 17s
-27° 57’ 37”

Galactic Coordinates

332.65°
27.97°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.41
Giant

-0.45
K4III
3950K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 58 Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 58 Hydrae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

58 Hydrae is distant 305.24 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

93.63
305.24
-10 km/s
-0.241 arcsec/y
-0.059"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO182911
SAO182911

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 58 Hydrae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 118.1°
Max altitude: 10.5°
Azimuth: 241.9°