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Sunset: 20:54
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HR1761

Below the horizon.  Rise: 8:02 | Tran: 14:20 | Set: 20:39
Alt: -32.99°   Az: 341.86°   Direction: North-North-West

HR1761 is a main-sequence star of spectral class B5 in the constellation of Orion.

HR1761 visual magnitude is 6.57. Because of its faintness, HR1761 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR1761 star
DSS2 image of HR1761. The red arrow shows the motion of HR1761 during the next 100000 years (-5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -15.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 22m 39s
+04° 02’ 06”
10h 59m 18s
16h 21m 57s

J2000

05h 21m 19s
+04° 00’ 42”

Galactic Coordinates

198.53°
-17.95°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR1761.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.57
Main-sequence

-1.34
B5V
11407K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR1761 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR1761. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR1761 is distant 1,244.27 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

381.68
1,244.27
5 km/s
-0.003 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO112660
SAO112660

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR1761 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 86.0°
Max altitude: 42.6°
Azimuth: 274.0°