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TimezoneEurope/London
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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:14
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HR431

Below the horizon.  Rise: 13:33 | Tran: 15:46 | Set: 17:58
Alt: -21.94°   Az: 116.92°   Direction: East-South-East

HR431 is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Sculptor.

HR431 visual magnitude is 6.58. Because of its faintness, HR431 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR431 star
DSS2 image of HR431. The red arrow shows the motion of HR431 during the next 10000 years (-9.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 29m 52s
-33° 38’ 03”
18h 26m 26s
19h 56m 18s

J2000

01h 28m 43s
-33° 45’ 48”

Galactic Coordinates

254.77°
-79.59°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR431.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.58
Hypergiant

1.87
F0IV
7462K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR431 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR431. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR431 is distant 284.97 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

87.41
284.97
-5 km/s
-0.055 arcsec/y
-0.025"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO193136
SAO193136

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR431 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 123.6°
Max altitude: 4.9°
Azimuth: 236.4°