We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:09 
Transit: 11:43 
Sunset: 16:18
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Vela » 

HR3588

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -58.55°   Az: 102.05°   Direction: East-South-East

HR3588 is a variable and double star of spectral class A in the constellation of Vela.

HR3588 visual magnitude is 5.18. Because of its faintness, HR3588 is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of HR3588 star
DSS2 image of HR3588. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3588 during the next 10000 years (-14.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 9.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 59m 43s
-47° 19’ 56”
15h 15m 20s
00h 15m 03s

J2000

08h 58m 52s
-47° 14’ 04”

Galactic Coordinates

267.71°
-0.9°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR3588 star
Simplified finder chart for HR3588.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.18
HR3588 is also a so called metallic star.

1.03
A
7795K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3588 is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3588. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR3588 is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR3588 double sysyem:

5.18
11.18
6
24.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3588 is distant 220.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

67.70
220.72
18 km/s
-0.086 arcsec/y
0.054"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO220717
SAO220717

Visibility from Your Location

HR3588 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK