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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:12 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:16
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HR6704

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:07 | Tran: 8:15 | Set: 12:22
Alt: -53.43°   Az: 319.17°   Direction: North-West

HR6704 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6704 visual magnitude is 6.21. Because of its faintness, HR6704 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 HR6704 star
DSS2 image of HR6704. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6704 during the next 100000 years (8.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -11.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 01m 29s
-20° 20’ 19”
10h 21m 48s
04h 23m 18s

J2000

18h 00m 00s
-20° 20’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

9.06°
1.56°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6704.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.21
Hypergiant

-0.89
K0II
3950K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6704 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6704. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6704 is distant 857.89 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 8 kilometers per second.

263.16
857.89
-8 km/s
0.005 arcsec/y
-0.007"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO186070
SAO186070

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6704 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 110.3°
Max altitude: 18.2°
Azimuth: 249.7°