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public  Mapusagafou, American Samoa Mapusagafou, American Samoa  ⓘ
TimezonePacific/Pago_Pago
Sunrise: 6:49 
Transit: 12:29 
Sunset: 18:08
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HR6894

Below the horizon.  Rise: 16:13 | Tran: 23:17 | Set: 6:21
Alt: -10.81°   Az: 146.19°   Direction: South-East

HR6894 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Telescopium.

HR6894 visual magnitude is 5.46. Because of its faintness, HR6894 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 HR6894 star
DSS2 image of HR6894. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6894 during the next 10000 years (-1.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -7.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 28m 50s
-48° 05’ 58”
15h 39m 41s
10h 08m 31s

J2000

18h 26m 53s
-48° 07’ 00”

Galactic Coordinates

346.61°
-16.02°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.46
Hypergiant

-0.59
K0III
5163K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6894 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6894. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6894 is distant 529.22 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

162.34
529.22
4 km/s
-0.007 arcsec/y
-0.042"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO229021
SAO229021

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6894 rise, transit and set times from Mapusagafou, American Samoa are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Pacific/Pago_Pago):

Azimuth: 138.1°
Max altitude: 56.2°
Azimuth: 221.9°