Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Pantabangan, Philippines Pantabangan, Philippines  ⓘ
TimezoneAsia/Manila
Sunrise: 5:32 
Transit: 12:01 
Sunset: 18:29
Search  close
All Constellations » Monoceros » 

HR2378

Above the horizon.  Rise: 4:52 | Tran: 11:08 | Set: 17:19
Alt: 10.13°   Az: 279.36°   Direction: West

HR2378 is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Monoceros.

HR2378 visual magnitude is 6.03. Because of its faintness, HR2378 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 HR2378 star
DSS2 image of HR2378. The red arrow shows the motion of HR2378 during the next 10000 years (1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

06h 33m 48s
+11° 39’ 11”
05h 30m 31s
12h 04m 20s

J2000

06h 32m 23s
+11° 40’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

200.39°
1.14°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR2378.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.03
Hypergiant

-1.01
K0III
4581K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR2378 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR2378. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR2378 is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR2378 double sysyem:

6.03
10.23
4.2
31.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR2378 is distant 833.76 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 21 kilometers per second.

255.75
833.76
-21 km/s
0.01 arcsec/y
-0.031"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO95803
SAO95803

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR2378 rise, transit and set times from Pantabangan, Philippines are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Asia/Manila):

Azimuth: 78.3°
Max altitude: 85.8°
Azimuth: 281.7°