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public  União da Vitória, Brazil União da Vitória, Brazil  ⓘ
TimezoneAmerica/Sao_Paulo
Sunrise: 7:13 
Transit: 12:28 
Sunset: 17:43
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58 Ophiuchi

Below the horizon.  Rise: 16:40 | Tran: 23:27 | Set: 6:10
Alt: -11.23°   Az: 238.81°   Direction: West-South-West

58 Ophiuchi is a double main-sequence star of spectral class F6 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

58 Ophiuchi visual magnitude is 4.87. Because of its moderate brightness, 58 Ophiuchi 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 Ophiuchi star
DSS2 image of 58 Ophiuchi. The red arrow shows the motion of 58 Ophiuchi during the next 1000 years (-1.58 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.72 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 44m 57s
-21° 41’ 35”
07h 41m 46s
01h 26m 44s

J2000

17h 43m 25s
-21° 40’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

5.94°
4.21°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 58 Ophiuchi.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.87
Main-sequence

3.65
F6V
6528K

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

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

Star System Properties

58 Ophiuchi is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 58 Ophiuchi double sysyem:

4.87
6.67
1.8
0 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

58 Ophiuchi is distant 57.19 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

17.54
57.19
11 km/s
-0.095 arcsec/y
-0.043"/y

Alternative Designations

58 Ophiuchi
SAO185660
SAO185660

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 58 Ophiuchi rise, transit and set times from União da Vitória, Brazil are the following (all times relative to the local timezone America/Sao_Paulo):

Azimuth: 111.7°
Max altitude: 85.5°
Azimuth: 248.3°