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HR5819

Below the horizon.  Rise: 2:02 | Tran: 5:50 | Set: 9:39
Alt: -2.96°   Az: 235.30°   Direction: South-West

HR5819 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Libra.

HR5819 visual magnitude is 6.34. Because of its faintness, HR5819 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 HR5819 star
DSS2 image of HR5819. The red arrow shows the motion of HR5819 during the next 10000 years (-6.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 40m 50s
-23° 13’ 49”
04h 13m 16s
19h 54m 07s

J2000

15h 39m 21s
-23° 09’ 01”

Galactic Coordinates

345.84°
25.41°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR5819.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.34
Hypergiant

1.48
A0V
9882K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR5819 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR5819. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR5819 is distant 305.53 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

93.72
305.53
-9 km/s
-0.036 arcsec/y
-0.029"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO183665
SAO183665

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR5819 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 113.2°
Max altitude: 15.3°
Azimuth: 246.8°