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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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HR4409

Below the horizon.  Rise: 19:19 | Tran: 20:51 | Set: 22:23
Alt: -7.31°   Az: 217.35°   Direction: South-West

HR4409 is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Centaurus.

HR4409 visual magnitude is 5.22. Because of its faintness, HR4409 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 HR4409 star
DSS2 image of HR4409. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4409 during the next 1000 years (-1.88 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 26m 43s
-36° 12’ 09”
03h 12m 53s
14h 39m 37s

J2000

11h 25m 29s
-36° 03’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

284.08°
23.64°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR4409.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.22
Hypergiant

0.55
K0III
4767K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4409 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4409. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR4409 is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR4409 double sysyem:

5.22
9.82
4.6
1.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4409 is distant 280.07 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

85.91
280.07
4 km/s
-0.113 arcsec/y
0.02"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO202428
SAO202428

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR4409 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.2°
Max altitude: 2.3°
Azimuth: 233.8°