HR6025

Altitude: 71.4° Azimuth: 21.9° Direction: North-North-East

HR6025 is a hypergiant star in the constellation of Draco.

HR6025 visual magnitude is 5.44. Because of its reltive faintness, HR6025 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 HR6025:

Color of HR6025 ⬤

Magnitude of HR6025 5.44

Class Hypergiant

VISIBILITY RIGHT NOW

HR6025 is above the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt.

Altitude: 71.4°
Azimuth: 21.9°
Direction: North-North-East

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR6025

HR6025 is situated close to the northern celestial pole and, as such, it is visible for most part of the year from the northern hemisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR6025 are provided in the following table:

Right Ascension J2000 16h 06m 19s

Declination J2000 +67° 48’ 37”

Galactic Longitude 101.15°

Galactic Latitude 40.09°

Constellation Draco

The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR6025 in the sky:

Simplified finder chart for HR6025.

Visibility of HR6025 from your location

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

HR6025 is circumpolar and transits at 22:54 UTC (altitude: 73.7°)

Digitized Sky Survey image of HR6025

The image below is a photograph of HR6025 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 HR6025 is -0.035 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and 0.066 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

DSS2 image of HR6025. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6025 during the next 10000 years (-5.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and 11.00 arcmin in declination);

Distance of HR6025 from the Sun and relative movement

HR6025 is distant 273.49 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

Distance (parsec) 83.89 pc

Distance (light year) 273.49 ly

Heliocentric radial velocity -18 km/s

Proper Motion RA -0.035 arcsec/year

Proper Motion Dec 0.066 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of HR6025

HR6025 belongs to spectral class A0 and has a luminosity class of V corresponding to a hypergiant star.

Absolute magnitude 0.82

Spectral Type A0V

Color Index (B-V) -0.02

Temperature of HR6025 10382K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6025 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

H-R diagram showing the position of HR6025. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of HR6025

Henry Draper Catalogue HD145454

SAO Catalogue SAO16962

Hipparcos Catalogue HIP78893

Durchmusterung Catalogue BD+68 864

FK5 Catalogue 3276

In Evidence

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