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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:56 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:58
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HR471

Below the horizon.  Rise: 8:58 | Tran: 10:26 | Set: 11:54
Alt: -10.63°   Az: 137.19°   Direction: South-East

HR471 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Sculptor.

HR471 visual magnitude is 5.94. Because of its faintness, HR471 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 HR471 star
DSS2 image of HR471. The red arrow shows the motion of HR471 during the next 1000 years (-0.30 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.13 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 39m 34s
-36° 23’ 59”
20h 15m 41s
21h 55m 16s

J2000

01h 38m 27s
-36° 31’ 41”

Galactic Coordinates

259.18°
-76.31°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR471.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.94
Hypergiant

0.96
K0IV
4626K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR471 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR471. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR471 is distant 322.77 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 30 kilometers per second.

99.01
322.77
30 km/s
-0.018 arcsec/y
-0.128"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO193224
SAO193224

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR471 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.4°
Max altitude: 2.1°
Azimuth: 233.6°