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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:44 
Transit: 13:02 
Sunset: 21:19
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HR6772

Below the horizon.  Rise: 23:42 | Tran: 1:09 | Set: 2:31
Alt: -29.38°   Az: 113.15°   Direction: South-South-West

HR6772 is a bright giant star of spectral class B1 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6772 visual magnitude is 6.58. Because of its faintness, HR6772 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6772 star
DSS2 image of HR6772. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6772 during the next 10000 years (-1.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 11m 06s
-36° 39’ 58”
17h 49m 16s
12h 00m 22s

J2000

18h 09m 22s
-36° 40’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

355.75°
-8.17°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6772.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.58
Bright giant

-23.42
B1II
10516K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6772 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6772. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6772 is distant 32,600,000.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 39 kilometers per second.

10,000,000.00
32,600,000.00
39 km/s
-0.011 arcsec/y
-0.004"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO209779
SAO209779

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6772 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.7°
Max altitude: 1.9°
Azimuth: 233.3°