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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
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HR268

Below the horizon.  Rise: 6:45 | Tran: 10:00 | Set: 13:14
Alt: -28.68°   Az: 260.68°   Direction: West

HR268 is a hypergiant star of spectral class M0 in the constellation of Sculptor.

HR268 visual magnitude is 6.1. Because of its faintness, HR268 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 HR268 star
DSS2 image of HR268. The red arrow shows the motion of HR268 during the next 100000 years (0.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 3.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 57m 09s
-27° 38’ 18”
06h 48m 56s
07h 46m 05s

J2000

00h 55m 55s
-27° 46’ 32”

Galactic Coordinates

246.23°
-88.81°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR268.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.1
Hypergiant

-2.68
M0III
3555K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR268 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR268. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR268 is distant 1,862.86 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 22 kilometers per second.

571.43
1,862.86
22 km/s
0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO166686
SAO166686

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR268 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 117.6°
Max altitude: 10.9°
Azimuth: 242.4°