Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 13:05 
Sunset: 21:11
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
wb_twilight   (Nautical Twilight)  
Planets Visible Tonight
Planets Visible Tonight
 • 
What's Visible Now • The Sky Tonight
Search  close
All Constellations » Aquarius » 

HR8006

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:36 | Tran: 2:31 | Set: 8:23
Alt: 18.06°   Az: 116.57°   Direction: East-South-East

HR8006 is a variable main-sequence star of spectral class A9 in the constellation of Aquarius.

HR8006 visual magnitude is 6.55. Because of its faintness, HR8006 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR8006 star
DSS2 image of HR8006. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8006 during the next 10000 years (-0.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 3.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

20h 56m 27s
-01° 16’ 28”
20h 06m 55s
17h 03m 23s

J2000

20h 55m 08s
-01° 22’ 23”

Galactic Coordinates

46.88°
-27.92°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR8006.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.55
Main-sequence

2.05
A9V
7526K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8006 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8006. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8006 is distant 258.94 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 9 kilometers per second.

79.43
258.94
-9 km/s
-0.002 arcsec/y
0.02"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO144941
SAO144941

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR8006 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 91.3°
Max altitude: 37.2°
Azimuth: 268.7°