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HR8132

Below the horizon.  Rise: 5:40 | Tran: 11:31 | Set: 17:21
Alt: -23.20°   Az: 60.48°   Direction: East-North-East

HR8132 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Aquarius.

HR8132 visual magnitude is 6.48. Because of its faintness, HR8132 is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of HR8132 star
DSS2 image of HR8132. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8132 during the next 10000 years (6.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 17m 57s
-01° 30’ 06”
15h 32m 33s
12h 50m 30s

J2000

21h 16m 39s
-01° 36’ 28”

Galactic Coordinates

49.84°
-32.65°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR8132.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.48
Hypergiant

-0.59
K0
4791K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8132 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8132. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8132 is distant 844.56 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.

259.07
844.56
-26 km/s
0.036 arcsec/y
-0.014"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO145259
SAO145259

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR8132 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 91.5°
Max altitude: 37.0°
Azimuth: 268.5°