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β Reticuli (beta Reticuli)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -27.50°   Az: 190.57°   Direction: South

β Reticuli is a double giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Reticulum.

β Reticuli visual magnitude is 3.85. Because of its moderate brightness, β Reticuli 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 Reticuli (beta Reticuli) star
DSS2 image of β Reticuli. The red arrow shows the motion of β Reticuli during the next 1000 years (5.22 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.27 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 44m 30s
-64° 43’ 39”
01h 29m 35s
05h 14m 05s

J2000

03h 44m 12s
-64° 48’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

279.24°
-43.54°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Reticuli (beta Reticuli).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.85
Giant

1.42
K2III
4451K

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

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

Star System Properties

β Reticuli 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 β Reticuli double sysyem:

3.85
8.05
4.2
1480 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Reticuli is distant 99.66 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 51 kilometers per second.

30.57
99.66
51 km/s
0.313 arcsec/y
0.076"/y

Alternative Designations

β Reticuli
(beta Reticuli)
SAO248877
SAO248877
Gl 154.2

Visibility from Your Location

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