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HR4922

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:27 | Tran: 12:39 | Set: 14:52
Alt: -19.07°   Az: 120.45°   Direction: East-South-East

HR4922 is a hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Centaurus.

HR4922 visual magnitude is 6.02. Because of its faintness, HR4922 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 HR4922 star
DSS2 image of HR4922. The red arrow shows the motion of HR4922 during the next 10000 years (-13.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -13.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

13h 01m 54s
-33° 38’ 17”
18h 47m 29s
07h 49m 23s

J2000

13h 00m 32s
-33° 30’ 19”

Galactic Coordinates

305.11°
29.33°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR4922 star
Simplified finder chart for HR4922.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.02
Hypergiant

3.01
F0V
6989K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4922 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR4922. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR4922 is distant 130.50 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

40.03
130.50
-23 km/s
-0.078 arcsec/y
-0.079"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO204029
SAO204029

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR4922 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 123.6°
Max altitude: 4.9°
Azimuth: 236.4°