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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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88 Leonis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:45 | Tran: 20:57 | Set: 4:13
Alt: 21.98°   Az: 265.33°   Direction: West

88 Leonis is a double hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Leo.

88 Leonis visual magnitude is 6.2. Because of its faintness, 88 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 88 Leonis star
DSS2 image of 88 Leonis. The red arrow shows the motion of 88 Leonis during the next 1000 years (-5.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.15 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 33m 03s
+14° 13’ 27”
04h 49m 49s
16h 22m 53s

J2000

11h 31m 44s
+14° 21’ 51”

Galactic Coordinates

243.43°
67.48°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.2
Hypergiant

4.39
G0V
6088K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 88 Leonis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 88 Leonis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

88 Leonis is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 88 Leonis double sysyem:

6.2
9
2.8
15.5 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

88 Leonis is distant 75.08 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

23.03
75.08
-4 km/s
-0.33 arcsec/y
-0.189"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO99648
SAO99648
NN 3669 A

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 88 Leonis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 75.8°
Max altitude: 52.7°
Azimuth: 284.2°