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HR6900

Below the horizon.  Rise: 2:47 | Tran: 9:11 | Set: 15:35
Alt: -19.38°   Az: 53.62°   Direction: North-East

HR6900 is a main-sequence star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Serpens.

HR6900 visual magnitude is 6.74. Because of its faintness, HR6900 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6900 star
DSS2 image of HR6900. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6900 during the next 100000 years (-5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 13.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 26m 23s
+05° 06’ 01”
15h 18m 45s
09h 45m 08s

J2000

18h 25m 08s
+05° 05’ 04”

Galactic Coordinates

34.49°
8.16°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR6900.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.74
Main-sequence

-0.34
B9V
9882K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6900 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6900. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6900 is distant 851.17 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 23 kilometers per second.

261.10
851.17
-23 km/s
-0.003 arcsec/y
0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO123453
SAO123453

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6900 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 84.9°
Max altitude: 43.6°
Azimuth: 275.1°