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HR6317

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:30 | Tran: 18:01 | Set: 0:32
Alt: 3.58°   Az: 83.98°   Direction: East

HR6317 is a main-sequence star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

HR6317 visual magnitude is 6.59. Because of its faintness, HR6317 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6317 star
DSS2 image of HR6317. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6317 during the next 10000 years (7.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 01m 41s
+06° 32’ 55”
17h 50m 05s
10h 51m 46s

J2000

17h 00m 29s
+06° 35’ 00”

Galactic Coordinates

25.88°
27.63°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR6317 star
Simplified finder chart for HR6317.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.59
Main-sequence

2.27
A7V
7938K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6317 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6317. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6317 is distant 238.13 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

73.05
238.13
-10 km/s
0.044 arcsec/y
-0.048"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO121995
SAO121995

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6317 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 83.5°
Max altitude: 45.1°
Azimuth: 276.5°