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Sunset: 19:03
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HR1661

Above the horizon.  Rise: 1:22 | Tran: 6:13 | Set: 11:03
Alt: 22.14°   Az: 154.66°   Direction: South-South-East

HR1661 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Lepus.

HR1661 visual magnitude is 6.05. Because of its faintness, HR1661 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 HR1661 star
DSS2 image of HR1661. The red arrow shows the motion of HR1661 during the next 10000 years (3.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 5.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 07m 45s
-13° 05’ 25”
22h 23m 56s
03h 31m 41s

J2000

05h 06m 36s
-13° 07’ 18”

Galactic Coordinates

213.32°
-29.1°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR1661 star
Simplified finder chart for HR1661.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.05
Hypergiant

0.82
A0V
10941K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR1661 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR1661. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR1661 is distant 363.03 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 40 kilometers per second.

111.36
363.03
40 km/s
0.019 arcsec/y
0.035"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO150149
SAO150149

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR1661 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 103.1°
Max altitude: 25.4°
Azimuth: 256.9°