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Sunset: 17:16
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HR6889

Below the horizon.  Rise: 7:04 | Tran: 8:40 | Set: 10:17
Alt: -68.76°   Az: 308.92°   Direction: North-West

HR6889 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6889 visual magnitude is 6.15. Because of its faintness, HR6889 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 HR6889 star
DSS2 image of HR6889. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6889 during the next 10000 years (-5.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and 2.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 27m 03s
-35° 58’ 32”
10h 38m 27s
05h 05m 30s

J2000

18h 25m 21s
-35° 59’ 30”

Galactic Coordinates

357.83°
-10.73°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6889.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.15
Hypergiant

0.40
K0III
4743K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6889 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6889. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6889 is distant 461.10 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

141.44
461.10
4 km/s
-0.033 arcsec/y
0.013"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO210119
SAO210119

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6889 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.0°
Max altitude: 2.5°
Azimuth: 234.0°