Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:03 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:50
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
Search  close
All Constellations » Serpens » 

HR5931

Below the horizon.  Rise: 17:27 | Tran: 1:09 | Set: 8:46
Alt: -18.87°   Az: 345.72°   Direction: North-North-West

HR5931 is a giant star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Serpens.

HR5931 visual magnitude is 6.26. Because of its faintness, HR5931 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 HR5931 star
DSS2 image of HR5931. The red arrow shows the motion of HR5931 during the next 10000 years (-2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

15h 56m 48s
+18° 32’ 52”
11h 02m 59s
02h 59m 47s

J2000

15h 55m 39s
+18° 37’ 14”

Galactic Coordinates

31.61°
46.96°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR5931.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.26
Giant

-2.26
B8III
11744K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR5931 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR5931. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR5931 is distant 1,646.46 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 42 kilometers per second.

505.05
1,646.46
-42 km/s
-0.014 arcsec/y
-0.015"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO101821
SAO101821

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR5931 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 71.5°
Max altitude: 57.1°
Azimuth: 288.5°