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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:16 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:12
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HR5861

Above the horizon.  Rise: 0:06 | Tran: 6:08 | Set: 12:10
Alt: 10.05°   Az: 258.49°   Direction: West-South-West

HR5861 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Serpens.

HR5861 visual magnitude is 6.33. Because of its faintness, HR5861 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 HR5861 star
DSS2 image of HR5861. The red arrow shows the motion of HR5861 during the next 10000 years (7.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 46m 56s
+00° 48’ 51”
04h 59m 09s
20h 46m 06s

J2000

15h 45m 39s
+00° 53’ 29”

Galactic Coordinates

8.25°
40.69°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR5861.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.33
Hypergiant

-0.06
K0III
4328K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR5861 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR5861. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR5861 is distant 618.60 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 14 kilometers per second.

189.75
618.60
14 km/s
0.043 arcsec/y
0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO121173
SAO121173

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR5861 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 89.2°
Max altitude: 39.3°
Azimuth: 270.8°