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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:57 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:56
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58 Leonis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 13:35 | Tran: 19:51 | Set: 2:10
Alt: -4.17°   Az: 79.09°   Direction: East

58 Leonis is a giant star of spectral class K1 in the constellation of Leo.

58 Leonis visual magnitude is 4.84. Because of its moderate brightness, 58 Leonis 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 Leonis star
DSS2 image of 58 Leonis. The red arrow shows the motion of 58 Leonis during the next 10000 years (2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 01m 52s
+03° 28’ 50”
17h 15m 24s
04h 17m 16s

J2000

11h 00m 33s
+03° 37’ 03”

Galactic Coordinates

249.69°
54.59°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.84
Giant

-0.26
K1III
4389K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

58 Leonis is distant 341.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 6 kilometers per second.

104.82
341.72
6 km/s
0.014 arcsec/y
-0.016"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO118610
SAO118610

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 86.5°
Max altitude: 42.0°
Azimuth: 273.5°