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HR507

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:58 | Tran: 16:32 | Set: 22:07
Alt: -11.26°   Az: 276.75°   Direction: West

HR507 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Cetus.

HR507 visual magnitude is 6.19. Because of its faintness, HR507 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 HR507 star
DSS2 image of HR507. The red arrow shows the motion of HR507 during the next 10000 years (-3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

01h 45m 10s
-04° 38’ 24”
06h 49m 04s
08h 34m 15s

J2000

01h 43m 54s
-04° 45’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

154.47°
-64.37°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR507.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.19
Hypergiant

-0.52
K0
3734K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR507 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR507. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR507 is distant 716.48 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

219.78
716.48
20 km/s
-0.02 arcsec/y
-0.032"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO129477
SAO129477

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR507 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 94.6°
Max altitude: 33.9°
Azimuth: 265.4°