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HR4160

Below the horizon.  Rise: 19:56 | Tran: 0:57 | Set: 5:54
Alt: -34.34°   Az: 297.25°   Direction: West-North-West

HR4160 is a hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Hydra.

HR4160 visual magnitude is 6.52. Because of its faintness, HR4160 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR4160 star
DSS2 image of HR4160. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4160 during the next 10000 years (-8.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

10h 38m 26s
-11° 52’ 46”
08h 45m 36s
19h 24m 02s

J2000

10h 37m 11s
-11° 44’ 54”

Galactic Coordinates

258.56°
39.29°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR4160.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.52
Hypergiant

2.40
F0V
7526K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4160 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4160. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4160 is distant 217.04 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

66.58
217.04
9 km/s
-0.051 arcsec/y
-0.032"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO156105
SAO156105

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR4160 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 101.9°
Max altitude: 26.6°
Azimuth: 258.1°