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public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:07 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:45
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All Constellations » Piscis Austrinus » 

HR8492

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:11 | Tran: 7:41 | Set: 11:10
Alt: -62.80°   Az: 336.52°   Direction: North-North-West

HR8492 is a bright giant star of spectral class K1 in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.

HR8492 visual magnitude is 6.15. Because of its faintness, HR8492 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 HR8492 star
DSS2 image of HR8492. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8492 during the next 10000 years (6.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

22h 18m 02s
-25° 46’ 15”
11h 13m 19s
09h 31m 22s

J2000

22h 16m 37s
-25° 53’ 53”

Galactic Coordinates

25.98°
-55.48°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR8492.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.15
Bright giant

-0.06
K1II
4493K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8492 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8492. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8492 is distant 567.94 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.

174.22
567.94
26 km/s
0.037 arcsec/y
-0.018"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO191016
SAO191016

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR8492 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 115.8°
Max altitude: 12.7°
Azimuth: 244.2°