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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:17
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μ Arietis (mu Arietis)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 2:21 | Tran: 10:08 | Set: 17:55
Alt: -6.87°   Az: 315.05°   Direction: North-West

μ Arietis is a multiple hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Aries.

μ Arietis visual magnitude is 5.69. Because of its faintness, μ Arietis 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 μ Arietis (mu Arietis) star
DSS2 image of μ Arietis. The red arrow shows the motion of μ Arietis during the next 10000 years (4.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 43m 48s
+20° 07’ 08”
08h 46m 41s
11h 30m 29s

J2000

02h 42m 21s
+20° 00’ 42”

Galactic Coordinates

155.53°
-35.74°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for μ Arietis (mu Arietis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.69
Hypergiant

0.61
A0V
10382K

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

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

Star System Properties

μ Arietis 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 μ Arietis double sysyem:

5.69
6.49
0.8
0.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

μ Arietis is distant 338.17 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

103.73
338.17
-7 km/s
0.029 arcsec/y
-0.043"/y

Alternative Designations

μ Arietis
(mu Arietis)
SAO93062
SAO93062

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 69.9°
Max altitude: 58.6°
Azimuth: 290.1°