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HR6334

Below the horizon.  Rise: 5:38 | Tran: 7:43 | Set: 9:49
Alt: -17.04°   Az: 236.09°   Direction: South-West

HR6334 is a double supergiant star of spectral class B1 in the constellation of Scorpius.

HR6334 visual magnitude is 4.87. Because of its moderate brightness, HR6334 is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of HR6334 star
DSS2 image of HR6334. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6334 during the next 100000 years (13.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 06m 28s
-34° 09’ 20”
04h 54m 01s
22h 00m 30s

J2000

17h 04m 49s
-34° 07’ 22”

Galactic Coordinates

350.83°
4.29°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6334.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.87
Supergiant

-4.70
B1I
7726K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6334 is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6334. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR6334 is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR6334 double sysyem:

4.87
13.97
9.1
20 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6334 is distant 2,672.13 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

819.67
2,672.13
4 km/s
0.008 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO208377
SAO208377

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6334 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 124.2°
Max altitude: 4.4°
Azimuth: 235.8°