We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:53 
Transit: 11:52 
Sunset: 15:50
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Carina » 

HR2554

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -26.41°   Az: 214.91°   Direction: South-West

HR2554 is a variable bright giant star of spectral class G6 in the constellation of Carina.

HR2554 visual magnitude is 4.4. Because of its moderate brightness, HR2554 is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of HR2554 star
DSS2 image of HR2554. The red arrow shows the motion of HR2554 during the next 10000 years (0.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 5.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

06h 50m 23s
-53° 39’ 08”
03h 59m 26s
10h 49m 50s

J2000

06h 49m 51s
-53° 37’ 19”

Galactic Coordinates

263.24°
-21.76°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR2554.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.4
Bright giant

-1.75
G6II
4943K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR2554 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR2554. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR2554 is distant 552.54 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.

169.49
552.54
26 km/s
0.03"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO234737
SAO234737

Visibility from Your Location

HR2554 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK