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β Sculptoris (beta Sculptoris)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 7:45 | Tran: 8:41 | Set: 9:37
Alt: -34.99°   Az: 108.58°   Direction: East-South-East

β Sculptoris is a variable sub-giant star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Sculptor.

β Sculptoris visual magnitude is 4.37. Because of its moderate brightness, β Sculptoris 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 Sculptoris (beta Sculptoris) star
DSS2 image of β Sculptoris. The red arrow shows the motion of β Sculptoris during the next 10000 years (14.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and 3.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 34m 19s
-37° 40’ 40”
17h 15m 28s
16h 49m 47s

J2000

23h 32m 58s
-37° 49’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

355.04°
-70.36°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for β Sculptoris (beta Sculptoris).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.37
Sub-giant
β Sculptoris is also a HgMnEu chemically peculiar star.

0.68
B9IV
11407K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β Sculptoris is distant 178.34 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

54.70
178.34
2 km/s
0.087 arcsec/y
0.021"/y

Alternative Designations

β Sculptoris
(beta Sculptoris)
SAO214615
SAO214615

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 127.7°
Max altitude: 0.8°
Azimuth: 232.3°