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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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HR658

Below the horizon.  Rise: 6:32 | Tran: 11:43 | Set: 16:53
Alt: -39.86°   Az: 44.85°   Direction: North-East

HR658 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Cetus.

HR658 visual magnitude is 6.55. Because of its faintness, HR658 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR658 star
DSS2 image of HR658. The red arrow shows the motion of HR658 during the next 10000 years (-0.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and 5.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 16m 43s
-09° 20’ 54”
14h 13m 05s
16h 29m 48s

J2000

02h 15m 28s
-09° 27’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

175.21°
-63.45°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR658.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.55
Hypergiant

0.58
A0V
10382K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR658 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR658. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR658 is distant 510.17 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

156.49
510.17
-1 km/s
-0.003 arcsec/y
0.031"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO129781
SAO129781

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR658 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 99.3°
Max altitude: 29.2°
Azimuth: 260.7°