We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Help us keep TheSkyLive 100% free & ads-free, donate now!
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:14 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:14
sunny   (Daytime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Sagittarius » 

HR6929

Below the horizon.  Rise: 5:14 | Tran: 8:48 | Set: 12:22
Alt: -33.60°   Az: 270.73°   Direction: West

HR6929 is a variable sub-giant star of spectral class B2 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR6929 visual magnitude is 6.59. Because of its faintness, HR6929 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR6929 star
DSS2 image of HR6929. The red arrow shows the motion of HR6929 during the next 100000 years (6.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

18h 30m 54s
-25° 14’ 16”
07h 31m 51s
02h 02m 46s

J2000

18h 29m 21s
-25° 15’ 23”

Galactic Coordinates

7.95°
-6.73°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR6929.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.59
Sub-giant

-3.39
B2IV
9328K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR6929 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR6929. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR6929 is distant 3,227.72 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

990.10
3,227.72
-4 km/s
0.004 arcsec/y
-0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO186873
SAO186873

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR6929 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 115.2°
Max altitude: 13.3°
Azimuth: 244.8°