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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:12 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:41
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HR5866

Below the horizon.  Rise: 19:53 | Tran: 1:24 | Set: 6:50
Alt: -18.81°   Az: 284.17°   Direction: West-North-West

HR5866 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Libra.

HR5866 visual magnitude is 6.24. Because of its faintness, HR5866 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 HR5866 star
DSS2 image of HR5866. The red arrow shows the motion of HR5866 during the next 100000 years (-15.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 48m 06s
-06° 11’ 50”
07h 30m 24s
23h 18m 30s

J2000

15h 46m 45s
-06° 07’ 13”

Galactic Coordinates

1.43°
36.14°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR5866.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.24
Hypergiant

-1.05
K0
4368K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR5866 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR5866. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR5866 is distant 936.78 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 51 kilometers per second.

287.36
936.78
-51 km/s
-0.009 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO140751
SAO140751

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR5866 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 96.2°
Max altitude: 32.3°
Azimuth: 263.8°