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HR4511

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -24.63°   Az: 173.04°   Direction: South

HR4511 is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Centaurus.

HR4511 visual magnitude is 5.03. Because of its faintness, HR4511 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 HR4511 star
DSS2 image of HR4511. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4511 during the next 100000 years (-13.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 5.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 44m 43s
-62° 37’ 40”
23h 04m 31s
10h 49m 15s

J2000

11h 43m 31s
-62° 29’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

295.18°
-0.64°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR4511.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.03
Hypergiant

-4.45
G0I
5281K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4511 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4511. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4511 is distant 2,566.93 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

787.40
2,566.93
10 km/s
-0.008 arcsec/y
0.003"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO251555
SAO251555

Visibility from Your Location

HR4511 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK