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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 6:28 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 19:23
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HR7256

Below the horizon.  Rise: 19:16 | Tran: 20:49 | Set: 22:23
Alt: -7.32°   Az: 142.46°   Direction: South-East

HR7256 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Sagittarius.

HR7256 visual magnitude is 6.56. Because of its faintness, HR7256 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR7256 star
DSS2 image of HR7256. The red arrow shows the motion of HR7256 during the next 10000 years (-1.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

19h 11m 15s
-36° 07’ 23”
20h 46m 17s
15h 57m 32s

J2000

19h 09m 36s
-36° 09’ 52”

Galactic Coordinates

1.28°
-19.02°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR7256 star
Simplified finder chart for HR7256.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.56
Hypergiant

-0.68
A0IV
10382K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR7256 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR7256. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR7256 is distant 915.73 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

280.90
915.73
-11 km/s
-0.008 arcsec/y
-0.013"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO210996
SAO210996

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR7256 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 126.1°
Max altitude: 2.4°
Azimuth: 233.9°