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 » Libra » 

ζ3 Librae (zeta3 Librae)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:14 | Tran: 0:44 | Set: 5:18
Alt: 3.66°   Az: 122.86°   Direction: East-South-East

ζ3 Librae is a giant star of spectral class G6 in the constellation of Libra.

ζ3 Librae visual magnitude is 5.82. Because of its faintness, ζ3 Librae 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 ζ3 Librae (zeta3 Librae) star
DSS2 image of ζ3 Librae. The red arrow shows the motion of ζ3 Librae during the next 10000 years (3.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 32m 06s
-16° 41’ 41”
19h 55m 44s
11h 27m 51s

J2000

15h 30m 40s
-16° 36’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

349.05°
31.66°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for ζ3 Librae (zeta3 Librae).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.82
Giant

-0.37
G6
4603K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where ζ3 Librae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of ζ3 Librae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ζ3 Librae is distant 564.01 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

173.01
564.01
-2 km/s
0.018 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

ζ3 Librae
(zeta3 Librae)
SAO159307
SAO159307

Visibility from Your Location

Today's ζ3 Librae (zeta3 Librae) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 106.7°
Max altitude: 21.8°
Azimuth: 253.3°