HR5466

Altitude: -6.9° Azimuth: 216.6° Direction: South-West

HR5466 is a hypergiant star in the constellation of Centaurus.

HR5466 visual magnitude is 5.67. Because of its reltive faintness, HR5466 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about HR5466:

Color of HR5466 ⬤

Magnitude of HR5466 5.67

Class Hypergiant

VISIBILITY RIGHT NOW

HR5466 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt.

Altitude: -6.9°
Azimuth: 216.6°
Direction: South-West

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR5466

HR5466 is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR5466 are provided in the following table:

Right Ascension J2000 14h 41m 01s

Declination J2000 -36° 08’ 05”

Galactic Longitude 326.5°

Galactic Latitude 21.67°

Constellation Centaurus

The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR5466 in the sky:

Simplified finder chart for HR5466.

Visibility of HR5466 from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's HR5466 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.1° RISE 7:48

Max altitude: 2.4° TRANSIT 9:21

Azimuth: 233.9° SET 10:55

Digitized Sky Survey image of HR5466

The image below is a photograph of HR5466 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR5466 is -0.022 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.008 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

DSS2 image of HR5466. The red arrow shows the motion of HR5466 during the next 10000 years (-3.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.33 arcmin in declination);

Distance of HR5466 from the Sun and relative movement

HR5466 is distant 588.45 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

Distance (parsec) 180.51 pc

Distance (light year) 588.45 ly

Heliocentric radial velocity -23 km/s

Proper Motion RA -0.022 arcsec/year

Proper Motion Dec -0.008 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of HR5466

HR5466 belongs to spectral class A0

Absolute magnitude -0.61

Spectral Type A0

Color Index (B-V) -0.08

Temperature of HR5466 11247K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR5466 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

H-R diagram showing the position of HR5466. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of HR5466

Henry Draper Catalogue HD128974

SAO Catalogue SAO205823

Hipparcos Catalogue HIP71783

Durchmusterung Catalogue CD-35 9702

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