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Transit: 12:53 
Sunset: 19:00
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HR6727

Below the horizon.  Rise: 15:12 | Tran: 19:04 | Set: 22:55
Alt: -22.03°   Az: 99.24°   Direction: East

HR6727 is a hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6727 visual magnitude is 6.74. Because of its faintness, HR6727 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6727 star
DSS2 image of HR6727. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6727 during the next 100000 years (5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 11.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 04m 31s
-22° 42’ 57”
17h 30m 49s
11h 35m 20s

J2000

18h 03m 01s
-22° 43’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

7.34°
-0.23°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR6727 star
Simplified finder chart for HR6727.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.74
Hypergiant

-23.26
B0III
10795K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6727 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6727. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6727 is distant 32,600,000.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 7 kilometers per second.

10,000,000.00
32,600,000.00
-7 km/s
0.003 arcsec/y
0.007"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO186169
SAO186169

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6727 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 112.7°
Max altitude: 15.8°
Azimuth: 247.3°