Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:05 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:48
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
Search  close
All Constellations » Hydra » 

φ2 Hydrae (phi2 Hydrae)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:19 | Tran: 19:50 | Set: 0:21
Alt: -46.48°   Az: 311.41°   Direction: North-West

φ2 Hydrae is a double giant star of spectral class M1 in the constellation of Hydra.

φ2 Hydrae visual magnitude is 6.03. Because of its faintness, φ2 Hydrae 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 φ2 Hydrae (phi2 Hydrae) star
DSS2 image of φ2 Hydrae. The red arrow shows the motion of φ2 Hydrae during the next 10000 years (-4.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 37m 31s
-16° 28’ 35”
09h 49m 38s
20h 27m 09s

J2000

10h 36m 16s
-16° 20’ 39”

Galactic Coordinates

261.94°
35.55°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for φ2 Hydrae (phi2 Hydrae).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.03
Giant

-1.33
M1III
3581K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where φ2 Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of φ2 Hydrae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

φ2 Hydrae 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 φ2 Hydrae double sysyem:

6.03
13.03
7
3.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

φ2 Hydrae is distant 967.36 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 16 kilometers per second.

296.74
967.36
16 km/s
-0.026 arcsec/y
-0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

φ2 Hydrae
(phi2 Hydrae)
SAO156093
SAO156093

Visibility from Your Location

Today's φ2 Hydrae (phi2 Hydrae) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 106.5°
Max altitude: 22.0°
Azimuth: 253.5°