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β Apodis (beta Apodis)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -44.66°   Az: 184.45°   Direction: South

β Apodis is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Apus.

β Apodis visual magnitude is 4.24. Because of its moderate brightness, β Apodis 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 β Apodis (beta Apodis) star
DSS2 image of β Apodis. The red arrow shows the motion of β Apodis during the next 1000 years (-4.78 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 46m 49s
-77° 33’ 47”
00h 59m 23s
17h 46m 12s

J2000

16h 43m 04s
-77° 31’ 02”

Galactic Coordinates

314.18°
-20.06°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Apodis (beta Apodis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.24
Hypergiant

0.82
K0III
4603K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where β Apodis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

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

Star System Properties

β Apodis 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 β Apodis double sysyem:

4.24
12.04
7.8
51.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Apodis is distant 157.56 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 30 kilometers per second.

48.33
157.56
-30 km/s
-0.287 arcsec/y
-0.35"/y

Alternative Designations

β Apodis
(beta Apodis)
SAO257424
SAO257424

Visibility from Your Location

β Apodis (beta Apodis) is currently not visible from Bogdanovich, Russia