We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:02 
Transit: 11:43 
Sunset: 16:24
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Corona Australis » 

HR6856

Below the horizon.  Rise: 14:19 | Tran: 15:21 | Set: 16:23
Alt: -75.48°   Az: 342.62°   Direction: North-North-West

HR6856 is a bright giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Corona Australis.

HR6856 visual magnitude is 6.45. Because of its faintness, HR6856 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 HR6856 star
DSS2 image of HR6856. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6856 during the next 10000 years (1.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 22m 37s
-37° 28’ 27”
11h 38m 20s
06h 00m 57s

J2000

18h 20m 55s
-37° 29’ 14”

Galactic Coordinates

356.07°
-10.59°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR6856 star
Simplified finder chart for HR6856.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.45
Bright giant

-2.77
K2II
4104K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6856 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6856. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6856 is distant 2,279.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

699.30
2,279.72
2 km/s
0.011 arcsec/y
-0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO210017
SAO210017

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6856 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 127.5°
Max altitude: 1.0°
Azimuth: 232.5°