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HR1420

Below the horizon.  Rise: 18:20 | Tran: 1:16 | Set: 8:08
Alt: -23.47°   Az: 330.08°   Direction: North-North-West

HR1420 is a main-sequence star of spectral class B5 in the constellation of Taurus.

HR1420 visual magnitude is 6.79. Because of its faintness, HR1420 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR1420 star
DSS2 image of HR1420. The red arrow shows the motion of HR1420 during the next 100000 years (6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

04h 31m 05s
+10° 34’ 27”
10h 09m 02s
14h 40m 07s

J2000

04h 29m 42s
+10° 31’ 18”

Galactic Coordinates

185.13°
-25.09°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR1420 star
Simplified finder chart for HR1420.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.79
Main-sequence

0.16
B5V
9125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR1420 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR1420. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR1420 is distant 692.14 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

212.31
692.14
15 km/s
0.004 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO93968
SAO93968

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR1420 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 79.4°
Max altitude: 49.1°
Azimuth: 280.6°