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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:10 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:42
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HR1940

Above the horizon.  Rise: 9:30 | Tran: 15:10 | Set: 20:50
Alt: 34.89°   Az: 184.23°   Direction: South

HR1940 is a main-sequence star of spectral class A8 in the constellation of Orion.

HR1940 visual magnitude is 6. Because of its faintness, HR1940 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 HR1940 star
DSS2 image of HR1940. The red arrow shows the motion of HR1940 during the next 100000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 40m 47s
-03° 33’ 09”
00h 13m 53s
05h 54m 40s

J2000

05h 39m 31s
-03° 33’ 52”

Galactic Coordinates

207.81°
-17.61°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR1940.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6
Main-sequence

2.92
A8V
7658K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR1940 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR1940. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR1940 is distant 134.93 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 22 kilometers per second.

41.39
134.93
22 km/s
-0.002 arcsec/y
-0.003"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO132424
SAO132424

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR1940 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 93.6°
Max altitude: 35.0°
Azimuth: 266.4°