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β Horologii (beta Horologii)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -36.47°   Az: 210.05°   Direction: South-South-West

β Horologii is a giant star of spectral class A3 in the constellation of Horologium.

β Horologii visual magnitude is 4.99. Because of its moderate brightness, β Horologii 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 Horologii (beta Horologii) star
DSS2 image of β Horologii. The red arrow shows the motion of β Horologii during the next 10000 years (3.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 59m 16s
-63° 58’ 15”
04h 26m 22s
07h 25m 39s

J2000

02h 58m 47s
-64° 04’ 17”

Galactic Coordinates

282.85°
-47.79°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Horologii (beta Horologii).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.99
Giant

0.08
A3III
8748K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Horologii is distant 313.46 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 24 kilometers per second.

96.15
313.46
24 km/s
0.022 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

β Horologii
(beta Horologii)
SAO248701
SAO248701

Visibility from Your Location

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