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Jabbah - ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:01 | Tran: 16:14 | Set: 20:27
Alt: -56.47°   Az: 22.42°   Direction: North-North-East

Jabbah, also designated as ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii), is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class B3 in the constellation of Scorpius.

Jabbah visual magnitude is 4.01. Because of its moderate brightness, Jabbah 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 Jabbah - ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii) star
DSS2 image of Jabbah. The red arrow shows the motion of Jabbah during the next 10000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 13m 26s
-19° 31’ 21”
12h 51m 40s
05h 05m 06s

J2000

16h 11m 59s
-19° 27’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

354.61°
22.7°

Finder Chart

Finder chart Jabbah - ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii) star
Simplified finder chart for Jabbah - ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.01
Main-sequence

-1.62
B3V
9652K

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

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

Star System Properties

Jabbah is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the Jabbah double sysyem:

4.01
6.51
2.5
41.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Jabbah is distant 436.41 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

133.87
436.41
2 km/s
-0.01 arcsec/y
-0.023"/y

Alternative Designations

Jabbah
ν Scorpii
(nu Scorpii)
SAO159764
SAO159764

Visibility from Your Location

Today's Jabbah - ν Scorpii (nu Scorpii) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 109.5°
Max altitude: 19.0°
Azimuth: 250.5°