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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:01 
Sunset: 21:19
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λ1 Sculptoris (lambda1 Sculptoris)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 7:21 | Tran: 7:48 | Set: 8:15
Alt: -65.24°   Az: 290.27°   Direction: West-North-West

λ1 Sculptoris is a double hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Sculptor.

λ1 Sculptoris visual magnitude is 6.06. Because of its faintness, λ1 Sculptoris 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 λ1 Sculptoris (lambda1 Sculptoris) star
DSS2 image of λ1 Sculptoris. The red arrow shows the motion of λ1 Sculptoris during the next 100000 years (5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 43m 56s
-38° 19’ 26”
09h 59m 46s
10h 43m 42s

J2000

00h 42m 42s
-38° 27’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

311.54°
-78.52°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for λ1 Sculptoris (lambda1 Sculptoris).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.06
Hypergiant

0.45
A0V
10516K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where λ1 Sculptoris is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of λ1 Sculptoris. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

λ1 Sculptoris is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the λ1 Sculptoris double sysyem:

6.06
6.36
0.3
0.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

λ1 Sculptoris is distant 431.79 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

132.45
431.79
10 km/s
0.003 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

λ1 Sculptoris
(lambda1 Sculptoris)
SAO192690
SAO192690

Visibility from Your Location

Today's λ1 Sculptoris (lambda1 Sculptoris) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 128.3°
Max altitude: 0.2°
Azimuth: 231.7°