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HR4538

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -67.07°   Az: 204.21°   Direction: South-South-West

HR4538 is a supergiant star of spectral class G6 in the constellation of Musca.

HR4538 visual magnitude is 4.97. Because of its moderate brightness, HR4538 is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of HR4538 star
DSS2 image of HR4538. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4538 during the next 100000 years (-15.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 51m 10s
-70° 22’ 01”
10h 06m 27s
21h 57m 38s

J2000

11h 49m 56s
-70° 13’ 32”

Galactic Coordinates

297.74°
-7.98°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR4538.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.97
Supergiant

-3.28
G6I
3950K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4538 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4538. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4538 is distant 1,455.36 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

446.43
1,455.36
18 km/s
-0.009 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO251604
SAO251604

Visibility from Your Location

HR4538 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK