Polis (Star)

R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.

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From South El Monte , Polis is visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 22:10, when it reaches an altitude of 17° above your south-eastern horizon. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 01:27, 34° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight around 04:26, 20° above your south-western horizon.

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Name Polis

Object type Star

Other names

Polis
μ-Sgr
Mu Sagittarii
13-Sgr
13 Sagittarii
HR 6812^[1]
HD 166937
HIP 89341^[5]
TYC 6276-3093-1^[4]
Gaia EDR3- 4093933487636355968^[6]

Position

Right ascension:	18^h13^m45^s ^[6]
Declination:	−21°03'31" ^[6]
Constellation:	Sagittarius
Magnitude:	3.84 (V) ^[3] 4.06 (BT) ^[2] 3.86 (VT) ^[2] 3.76 (G) ^[6] 3.91 (BP) ^[6] 3.45 (RP) ^[6]
B-V Color (mag):	0.18
Proper motion (speed):	0.6 mas/yr^[1]
Proper motion (pos ang):	148.0°

Sources

^[1]	Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit et al. 1991)

^[2]	The Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA 1997)

^[3]	The Tycho Catalogue (ESA 1997)

^[4]	The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog et al. 2000)

^[5]	Hipparcos, the new reduction of the raw data (van Leeuwen 2007)

^[6]	Gaia EDR3 (Gaia Collaboration 2020)

Visibility from South El Monte

All times shown in South El Monte local time.

South El Monte

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34.05°N
118.05°W
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