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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:54
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59 Sagittarii

Below the horizon.  Rise: 1:39 | Tran: 4:58 | Set: 8:17
Alt: -17.56°   Az: 248.31°   Direction: West-South-West

59 Sagittarii is a bright giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

59 Sagittarii visual magnitude is 4.52. Because of its moderate brightness, 59 Sagittarii 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 59 Sagittarii star
DSS2 image of 59 Sagittarii. The red arrow shows the motion of 59 Sagittarii during the next 10000 years (1.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

19h 58m 30s
-27° 06’ 01”
05h 37m 21s
01h 35m 51s

J2000

19h 56m 56s
-27° 10’ 12”

Galactic Coordinates

14.05°
-25.56°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 59 Sagittarii.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.52
Bright giant

-3.32
K2II
3855K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 59 Sagittarii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 59 Sagittarii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

59 Sagittarii is distant 1,207.41 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

370.37
1,207.41
-16 km/s
0.008 arcsec/y
-0.013"/y

Alternative Designations

59 Sagittarii
SAO188742
SAO188742

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 59 Sagittarii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 117.1°
Max altitude: 11.4°
Azimuth: 242.9°