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HR6680

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:57 | Tran: 8:08 | Set: 11:18
Alt: -30.74°   Az: 262.42°   Direction: West

HR6680 is a giant star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6680 visual magnitude is 5.8. Because of its faintness, HR6680 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 HR6680 star
DSS2 image of HR6680. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6680 during the next 10000 years (6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

17h 58m 17s
-28° 04’ 00”
07h 00m 19s
00h 58m 36s

J2000

17h 56m 41s
-28° 03’ 55”

Galactic Coordinates

1.99°
-1.65°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6680.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.8
Giant

2.29
A7III
8086K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6680 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6680. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6680 is distant 164.07 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

50.33
164.07
7 km/s
0.04 arcsec/y
-0.017"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO185975
SAO185975

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6680 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 118.1°
Max altitude: 10.5°
Azimuth: 241.9°