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

Below the horizon.  Rise: 14:15 | Tran: 20:12 | Set: 2:13
Alt: -22.94°   Az: 58.32°   Direction: East-North-East

69 Leonis is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Leo.

69 Leonis visual magnitude is 5.42. Because of its faintness, 69 Leonis 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 69 Leonis star
DSS2 image of 69 Leonis. The red arrow shows the motion of 69 Leonis during the next 10000 years (-7.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 15m 03s
-00° 12’ 29”
15h 26m 23s
02h 41m 27s

J2000

11h 13m 45s
-00° 04’ 10”

Galactic Coordinates

258.13°
54.08°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.42
Hypergiant

-0.40
A0V
10516K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 69 Leonis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 69 Leonis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

69 Leonis is distant 476.61 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

146.20
476.61
5 km/s
-0.043 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO118731
SAO118731

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 69 Leonis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 90.2°
Max altitude: 38.3°
Azimuth: 269.8°