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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:54
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HR6434

Above the horizon.  Rise: 19:47 | Tran: 2:20 | Set: 8:48
Alt: 7.58°   Az: 270.22°   Direction: West

HR6434 is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

HR6434 visual magnitude is 6.51. Because of its faintness, HR6434 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6434 star
DSS2 image of HR6434. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6434 during the next 10000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 20m 07s
+06° 03’ 37”
05h 41m 45s
23h 01m 52s

J2000

17h 18m 52s
+06° 05’ 07”

Galactic Coordinates

27.69°
23.34°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6434.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.51
Hypergiant

0.79
F0IV
6934K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6434 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6434. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6434 is distant 454.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 25 kilometers per second.

139.47
454.67
-25 km/s
0.02 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO122270
SAO122270

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6434 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 83.9°
Max altitude: 44.6°
Azimuth: 276.1°