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HR445

Below the horizon.  Rise: 14:45 | Tran: 16:06 | Set: 17:27
Alt: -46.15°   Az: 265.49°   Direction: West

HR445 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Sculptor.

HR445 visual magnitude is 5.51. Because of its faintness, HR445 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 HR445 star
DSS2 image of HR445. The red arrow shows the motion of HR445 during the next 10000 years (0.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 34m 03s
-36° 44’ 12”
08h 01m 55s
09h 35m 58s

J2000

01h 32m 56s
-36° 51’ 55”

Galactic Coordinates

263.48°
-76.89°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR445.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.51
Hypergiant

0.96
K0III
4695K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR445 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR445. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR445 is distant 265.26 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 13 kilometers per second.

81.37
265.26
13 km/s
0.002 arcsec/y
-0.023"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO193173
SAO193173

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR445 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.7°
Max altitude: 1.8°
Azimuth: 233.3°