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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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HR6716

Below the horizon.  Rise: 23:27 | Tran: 3:23 | Set: 7:14
Alt: -30.12°   Az: 89.42°   Direction: East

HR6716 is a variable and multiple hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6716 visual magnitude is 5.77. Because of its faintness, HR6716 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 HR6716 star
DSS2 image of HR6716. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6716 during the next 100000 years (-5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -13.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 03m 26s
-22° 46’ 44”
16h 38m 55s
10h 42m 22s

J2000

18h 01m 54s
-22° 46’ 50”

Galactic Coordinates

7.16°
-0.03°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6716.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.77
Hypergiant

-24.23
B0I
10125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6716 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6716. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR6716 is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR6716 double sysyem:

5.77
12.87
7.1
8.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6716 is distant 32,600,000.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 13 kilometers per second.

10,000,000.00
32,600,000.00
-13 km/s
-0.003 arcsec/y
-0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO186135
SAO186135

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6716 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 112.8°
Max altitude: 15.7°
Azimuth: 247.2°