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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:54
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7 Monocerotis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 10:00 | Tran: 15:19 | Set: 20:37
Alt: 29.96°   Az: 167.65°   Direction: South-South-East

7 Monocerotis is a main-sequence star of spectral class B2 in the constellation of Monoceros.

7 Monocerotis visual magnitude is 5.27. Because of its faintness, 7 Monocerotis 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 7 Monocerotis star
DSS2 image of 7 Monocerotis. The red arrow shows the motion of 7 Monocerotis during the next 100000 years (-6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

06h 20m 56s
-07° 50’ 08”
23h 16m 53s
05h 37m 49s

J2000

06h 19m 42s
-07° 49’ 23”

Galactic Coordinates

216.36°
-10.59°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.27
Main-sequence

-1.74
B2V
13348K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 7 Monocerotis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 7 Monocerotis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

7 Monocerotis is distant 823.23 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 29 kilometers per second.

252.53
823.23
29 km/s
-0.004 arcsec/y

Alternative Designations

7 Monocerotis
SAO133114
SAO133114

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 7 Monocerotis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 97.8°
Max altitude: 30.7°
Azimuth: 262.2°