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🌎  Observing from: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
🌅 Sunrise: 6:43  ☀️ Transit: 13:03  🌅 Sunset: 19:24

HR700

HR700 is a giant star in the constellation of Fornax.

HR700 visual magnitude is 6.53. Because of its reltive faintness, HR700 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about HR700:

6.53
Giant
HR700 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change].

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR700

HR700 is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern emisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR700 are provided in the following table:

02h 23m 06s
-37° 34’ 35”
247.15°
-68.09°
Fornax

The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR700 in the sky:

Finder chart HR700 star
Simplified finder chart for HR700.

Visibility of HR700 from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's HR700 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 127.6°
Max altitude: 0.9°
Azimuth: 232.4°
HR700 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Digitized Sky Survey image of HR700

The image below is a photograph of HR700 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR700 is -0.014 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.037 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

Image of HR700 star
DSS2 image of HR700. The red arrow shows the motion of HR700 during the next 10000 years (-2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.17 arcmin in declination);

Distance of HR700 from the Sun and relative movement

HR700 is distant 1,172.66 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

359.71 pc
1,172.66 ly
11 km/s
-0.014 arcsec/year
-0.037 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of HR700

HR700 belongs to spectral class K2 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a giant star.

-1.25
K2III
3635K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR700 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR700. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of HR700

SAO193679
SAO193679