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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:52 
Transit: 12:58 
Sunset: 20:05
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HR6768

Above the horizon.  Rise: 19:38 | Tran: 5:08 | Set: 14:35
Alt: 12.50°   Az: 53.21°   Direction: North-East

HR6768 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Hercules.

HR6768 visual magnitude is 5.71. Because of its faintness, HR6768 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 HR6768 star
DSS2 image of HR6768. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6768 during the next 10000 years (2.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 06m 46s
+32° 14’ 03”
16h 30m 18s
10h 37m 04s

J2000

18h 05m 49s
+32° 13’ 50”

Galactic Coordinates

58.59°
23.08°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6768.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.71
Hypergiant

-0.93
K0III
4389K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6768 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6768. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6768 is distant 695.10 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

213.22
695.10
1 km/s
0.012 arcsec/y
-0.026"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO66626
SAO66626

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6768 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 57.8°
Max altitude: 70.8°
Azimuth: 302.2°