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🌎  Observing from: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
🌅 Sunrise: 6:43  ☀️ Transit: 13:03  🌅 Sunset: 19:24

HR4029

HR4029 is a hypergiant star in the constellation of Antlia.

HR4029 visual magnitude is 6.19. Because of its reltive faintness, HR4029 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about HR4029:

6.19
Hypergiant
HR4029 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change].

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR4029

HR4029 is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern emisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR4029 are provided in the following table:

10h 15m 20s
-36° 31’ 05”
271.08°
16.52°
Antlia

The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR4029 in the sky:

Finder chart HR4029 star
Simplified finder chart for HR4029.

Visibility of HR4029 from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's HR4029 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.5°
Max altitude: 2.0°
Azimuth: 233.5°
HR4029 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Digitized Sky Survey image of HR4029

The image below is a photograph of HR4029 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR4029 is -0.033 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.005 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

Image of HR4029 star
DSS2 image of HR4029. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4029 during the next 10000 years (-5.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.83 arcmin in declination);

Distance of HR4029 from the Sun and relative movement

HR4029 is distant 367.12 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 27 kilometers per second.

112.61 pc
367.12 ly
27 km/s
-0.033 arcsec/year
-0.005 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of HR4029

HR4029 belongs to spectral class K0 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a hypergiant star.

0.93
K0III
4603K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4029 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4029. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of HR4029

SAO201211
SAO201211