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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:57 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:56
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HR6439

Below the horizon.  Rise: 20:41 | Tran: 2:13 | Set: 7:41
Alt: -4.57°   Az: 93.80°   Direction: East

HR6439 is a main-sequence star of spectral class G9 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

HR6439 visual magnitude is 6.32. Because of its faintness, HR6439 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 HR6439 star
DSS2 image of HR6439. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6439 during the next 1000 years (0.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 21m 21s
-05° 56’ 28”
18h 00m 29s
11h 21m 50s

J2000

17h 19m 59s
-05° 55’ 01”

Galactic Coordinates

16.64°
17.27°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6439.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.32
Main-sequence

2.68
G9V
5134K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6439 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6439. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6439 is distant 173.96 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 31 kilometers per second.

53.36
173.96
-31 km/s
0.04 arcsec/y
-0.18"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO141611
SAO141611
Gl 668.1

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6439 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 95.9°
Max altitude: 32.6°
Azimuth: 264.1°