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public  Brentwood, United States Brentwood, United States  ⓘ
TimezoneAmerica/New_York
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:46 
Sunset: 20:25
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HR1237

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:40 | Tran: 10:46 | Set: 17:51
Alt: 34.56°   Az: 98.42°   Direction: South

HR1237 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Taurus.

HR1237 visual magnitude is 6.32. Because of its faintness, HR1237 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 HR1237 star
DSS2 image of HR1237. The red arrow shows the motion of HR1237 during the next 10000 years (0.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 02m 04s
+17° 22’ 00”
20h 05m 34s
00h 07m 38s

J2000

04h 00m 36s
+17° 17’ 48”

Galactic Coordinates

174.34°
-26.15°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR1237.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.32
Hypergiant

-0.94
A0V
9434K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR1237 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR1237. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR1237 is distant 923.51 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 29 kilometers per second.

283.29
923.51
29 km/s
-0.033"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93716
SAO93716

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR1237 rise, transit and set times from Brentwood, United States are the following (all times relative to the local timezone America/New_York):

Azimuth: 72.6°
Max altitude: 64.4°
Azimuth: 287.4°