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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 6:55 
Transit: 11:43 
Sunset: 16:31
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HR6273

Below the horizon.  Rise: 11:23 | Tran: 14:10 | Set: 16:57
Alt: -51.12°   Az: 284.77°   Direction: West-North-West

HR6273 is a giant star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Scorpius.

HR6273 visual magnitude is 6.35. Because of its faintness, HR6273 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 HR6273 star
DSS2 image of HR6273. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6273 during the next 10000 years (6.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

16h 56m 11s
-30° 37’ 32”
09h 00m 33s
01h 56m 45s

J2000

16h 54m 36s
-30° 35’ 13”

Galactic Coordinates

352.31°
8.16°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR6273 star
Simplified finder chart for HR6273.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.35
Giant

-0.08
A7III
8086K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6273 is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6273. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6273 is distant 630.56 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

193.42
630.56
1 km/s
0.039 arcsec/y
0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO208176
SAO208176

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6273 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 120.6°
Max altitude: 7.9°
Azimuth: 239.4°