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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:21 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:07
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HR6661

Above the horizon.  Rise: 3:00 | Tran: 8:27 | Set: 13:54
Alt: 12.44°   Az: 243.05°   Direction: West-South-West

HR6661 is a variable supergiant star of spectral class F8 in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

HR6661 visual magnitude is 6.21. Because of its faintness, HR6661 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 HR6661 star
DSS2 image of HR6661. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6661 during the next 100000 years (13.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -15.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 53m 59s
-06° 08’ 51”
04h 04m 24s
21h 58m 24s

J2000

17h 52m 38s
-06° 08’ 36”

Galactic Coordinates

20.6°
10.12°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6661.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.21
Supergiant

-3.51
F8I
3950K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6661 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6661. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6661 is distant 2,859.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

877.19
2,859.65
-5 km/s
0.008 arcsec/y
-0.009"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO141926
SAO141926

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6661 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 96.1°
Max altitude: 32.4°
Azimuth: 263.9°