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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:02 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:51
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98 Aquarii

Above the horizon.  Rise: 4:21 | Tran: 8:31 | Set: 12:41
Alt: 9.24°   Az: 139.45°   Direction: South-East

98 Aquarii is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Aquarius.

98 Aquarii visual magnitude is 3.97. Because of its moderate brightness, 98 Aquarii 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 98 Aquarii star
DSS2 image of 98 Aquarii. The red arrow shows the motion of 98 Aquarii during the next 1000 years (-2.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.60 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 24m 18s
-19° 57’ 39”
21h 07m 45s
20h 32m 04s

J2000

23h 22m 58s
-20° 06’ 02”

Galactic Coordinates

47.35°
-68.59°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.97
Hypergiant

0.49
K0III
4515K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 98 Aquarii is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 98 Aquarii. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

98 Aquarii is distant 161.87 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

49.65
161.87
-7 km/s
-0.12 arcsec/y
-0.096"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO191858
SAO191858

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 98 Aquarii rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 110.0°
Max altitude: 18.6°
Azimuth: 250.0°