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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:19 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:09
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HR6501

Below the horizon.  Rise: 6:40 | Tran: 8:00 | Set: 9:19
Alt: -61.41°   Az: 287.17°   Direction: West-North-West

HR6501 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Scorpius.

HR6501 visual magnitude is 6.02. Because of its faintness, HR6501 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 HR6501 star
DSS2 image of HR6501. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6501 during the next 100000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -15.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 30m 38s
-36° 47’ 48”
09h 40m 42s
03h 11m 20s

J2000

17h 28m 56s
-36° 46’ 41”

Galactic Coordinates

351.5°
-1.25°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6501.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.02
Hypergiant

-0.43
K0III
4493K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6501 is situated in the Hertzsprungā€“Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6501. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6501 is distant 636.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 28 kilometers per second.

195.31
636.72
-28 km/s
0.002 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO208860
SAO208860

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6501 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.8°
Max altitude: 1.7°
Azimuth: 233.2°