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Heze - ζ Virginis (zeta Virginis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 16:26 | Tran: 22:21 | Set: 4:19
Alt: 6.39°   Az: 260.73°   Direction: West

Heze, also designated as ζ Virginis (zeta Virginis), is a main-sequence star of spectral class A3 in the constellation of Virgo.

Heze visual magnitude is 3.37. Because of its moderate brightness, Heze 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 Heze - ζ Virginis (zeta Virginis) star
DSS2 image of Heze. The red arrow shows the motion of Heze during the next 1000 years (-4.75 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.70 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

13h 35m 59s
-00° 43’ 30”
05h 15m 06s
18h 51m 06s

J2000

13h 34m 41s
-00° 35’ 44”

Galactic Coordinates

325.25°
60.39°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for Heze - ζ Virginis (zeta Virginis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.37
Main-sequence

1.61
A3V
8932K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Heze is distant 73.18 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 13 kilometers per second.

22.45
73.18
-13 km/s
-0.285 arcsec/y
0.042"/y

Alternative Designations

Heze
ζ Virginis
(zeta Virginis)
79 Virginis
SAO139420
SAO139420

Visibility from Your Location

Today's Heze - ζ Virginis (zeta Virginis) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 90.7°
Max altitude: 37.8°
Azimuth: 269.3°