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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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HR6441

Below the horizon.  Rise: 21:37 | Tran: 1:54 | Set: 6:08
Alt: -55.51°   Az: 27.28°   Direction: North-North-East

HR6441 is a double sub-giant star of spectral class G3 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

HR6441 visual magnitude is 6.52. Because of its faintness, HR6441 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6441 star
DSS2 image of HR6441. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6441 during the next 1000 years (-2.52 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.70 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 22m 04s
-19° 21’ 23”
13h 03m 51s
06h 25m 55s

J2000

17h 20m 34s
-19° 19’ 58”

Galactic Coordinates

5.04°
9.98°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6441.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.52
Sub-giant

3.07
G3IV
6047K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6441 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6441. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR6441 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 HR6441 double sysyem:

6.52
14.02
7.5
5.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6441 is distant 159.73 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 69 kilometers per second.

49.00
159.73
-69 km/s
-0.151 arcsec/y
-0.102"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO160474
SAO160474

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6441 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 109.4°
Max altitude: 19.2°
Azimuth: 250.6°