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public  Brunswick Heads, Australia Brunswick Heads, Australia  ⓘ
TimezoneAustralia/Sydney
Sunrise: 6:39 
Transit: 11:50 
Sunset: 17:00
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HR4298

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:40 | Tran: 16:01 | Set: 23:18
Alt: 78.64°   Az: 110.69°   Direction: East-South-East

HR4298 is a main-sequence star of spectral class F8 in the constellation of Hydra.

HR4298 visual magnitude is 6.07. Because of its faintness, HR4298 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 HR4298 star
DSS2 image of HR4298. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4298 during the next 1000 years (-1.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.75 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 01m 53s
-31° 58’ 36”
23h 09m 48s
10h 11m 42s

J2000

11h 00m 40s
-31° 50’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

277.02°
25.4°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR4298.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.07
Main-sequence

3.60
F8V
6300K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4298 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4298. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4298 is distant 101.75 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

31.21
101.75
-2 km/s
-0.08 arcsec/y
0.105"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO201998
SAO201998

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR4298 rise, transit and set times from Brunswick Heads, Australia are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Australia/Sydney):

Azimuth: 122.0°
Max altitude: 86.6°
Azimuth: 238.0°