Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
wb_twilight   (Nautical Twilight)  
Planets Visible Tonight
Planets Visible Tonight
 • 
What's Visible Now • Tonight Sky
Search  close
All Constellations » Fornax » 

HR700

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:24 | Tran: 11:26 | Set: 12:29
Alt: -42.91°   Az: 99.54°   Direction: East

HR700 is a giant star of spectral class K2 in the constellation of Fornax.

HR700 visual magnitude is 6.53. Because of its faintness, HR700 is not visible to the naked eye.

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);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

02h 24m 09s
-37° 27’ 42”
16h 22m 02s
18h 46m 11s

J2000

02h 23m 06s
-37° 34’ 35”

Galactic Coordinates

247.15°
-68.09°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR700.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.53
Giant

-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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

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
1,172.66
11 km/s
-0.014 arcsec/y
-0.037"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO193679
SAO193679

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 127.5°
Max altitude: 1.1°
Azimuth: 232.5°