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β Chamaeleontis (beta Chamaeleontis)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -50.43°   Az: 163.30°   Direction: South-South-East

β Chamaeleontis is a variable main-sequence star of spectral class B5 in the constellation of Chamaeleon.

β Chamaeleontis visual magnitude is 4.26. Because of its moderate brightness, β Chamaeleontis 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 Chamaeleontis (beta Chamaeleontis) star
DSS2 image of β Chamaeleontis. The red arrow shows the motion of β Chamaeleontis during the next 10000 years (-8.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 2.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

12h 19m 51s
-79° 26’ 58”
17h 56m 31s
06h 16m 22s

J2000

12h 18m 20s
-79° 18’ 43”

Galactic Coordinates

301.34°
-16.54°

Finder Chart

Finder chart β Chamaeleontis (beta Chamaeleontis) star
Simplified finder chart for β Chamaeleontis (beta Chamaeleontis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.26
Main-sequence

-0.34
B5V
11920K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Chamaeleontis is distant 270.54 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

82.99
270.54
23 km/s
-0.048 arcsec/y
0.017"/y

Alternative Designations

β Chamaeleontis
(beta Chamaeleontis)
SAO256924
SAO256924

Visibility from Your Location

β Chamaeleontis (beta Chamaeleontis) is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK