We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:20 
Transit: 12:46 
Sunset: 18:11
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Cassiopeia » 

HR8832

Above the horizon.  Circumpolar today
Alt: 44.47°   Az: 311.32°   Direction: North-West

HR8832 is a variable and double main-sequence star of spectral class K3 in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

HR8832 visual magnitude is 5.56. Because of its faintness, HR8832 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 HR8832 star
DSS2 image of HR8832. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8832 during the next 100 years (3.46 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.49 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 14m 22s
+57° 18’ 12”
05h 31m 11s
04h 45m 34s

J2000

23h 13m 17s
+57° 10’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

109.87°
-3.19°

Finder Chart

Finder chart HR8832 star
Simplified finder chart for HR8832.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.56
Main-sequence

6.49
K3V
4719K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8832 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8832. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR8832 is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR8832 double sysyem:

5.56
9.36
3.8
106.6 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8832 is distant 21.27 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

6.53
21.27
-18 km/s
2.075 arcsec/y
0.296"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO35236
SAO35236

Visibility from Your Location

HR8832 is circumpolar and transits at 21:46 UTC (altitude: 84.2°)