Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:43 
Transit: 13:00 
Sunset: 21:18
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
wb_twilight   (Astronomical Twilight)  
Planets Visible Tonight
Planets Visible Tonight
 • 
What's Visible Now • Tonight Sky
Search  close
All Constellations » Corona Borealis » 

ρ Coronae Borealis (rho Coronae Borealis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:37 | Tran: 23:16 | Set: 8:58
Alt: 68.29°   Az: 219.10°   Direction: South-West

ρ Coronae Borealis is a double hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Corona Borealis.

ρ Coronae Borealis visual magnitude is 5.41. Because of its faintness, ρ Coronae Borealis 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 ρ Coronae Borealis (rho Coronae Borealis) star
DSS2 image of ρ Coronae Borealis. The red arrow shows the motion of ρ Coronae Borealis during the next 1000 years (-3.20 arcmin in Right Ascension and -12.77 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 02m 01s
+33° 14’ 00”
01h 04m 47s
17h 06m 48s

J2000

16h 01m 02s
+33° 18’ 12”

Galactic Coordinates

53.51°
48.92°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for ρ Coronae Borealis (rho Coronae Borealis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.41
Hypergiant

4.20
G0V
5968K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where ρ Coronae Borealis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

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

Star System Properties

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

5.41
8.61
3.2
89.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ρ Coronae Borealis is distant 56.81 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

17.43
56.81
18 km/s
-0.192 arcsec/y
-0.766"/y

Alternative Designations

ρ Coronae Borealis
(rho Coronae Borealis)
15 Coronae Borealis
SAO65024
SAO65024
Gl 606.2

Visibility from Your Location

Today's ρ Coronae Borealis (rho Coronae Borealis) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 56.8°
Max altitude: 71.8°
Azimuth: 303.2°