Its story
Gaia DR3 5959942777450489600 has a visual magnitude of about 8.12: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for Gaia DR3 5959942777450489600: right ascension 17h 20m 38s, declination −40° 34′ 2″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).
Gaia DR3 5959942777450489600. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as Gaia DR3 5959942777450489600. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFacts
- Right ascension
- 17h 20m 38s
- Declination
- −40° 34′ 02″
- Magnitude
- 8.12
- Distance
- ≈ 854 ly
Data: gaia-dr3