68 Vir

HIP 65581; 68 Vir DoubleStar Vir Visible Level 6 Professional/Research - Requires steady seeing

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Physical Properties

Magnitude 5.25

Spectral Type M0III

Star Color Red (B-V 1.52)

Position & Identifiers

RA 13h 26m 43.2s

Dec -12° 42' 28.0"

Constellation Vir

HR 5064

HIP 65581

Flamsteed 68 Vir

Visibility

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Multiple Star System

Separation 0.1″

Companion Mag 6.4

Position Angle -1°

Star Colors A: Red

Discoverer OCC 164

Eyepiece View

Telescope Eyepiece

80x Dawes: 1.9″ TFOV: 0.6°

Seeing

Scale Realistic = true angular size

Sep: 0.1″ · PA: -1° · N up, E left

Unresolved · Rayleigh: 2.3″ · Dawes: 1.9″ · Eff: 3.1″

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Stellar Notes

Group/Cluster

61 Cyg group.

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