Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
wb_twilight   (Astronomical Twilight)  
Planets Visible Tonight
Planets Visible Tonight
 • 
What's Visible Now • Tonight Sky
Search  close
All Constellations » Cepheus » 

HR8844

Above the horizon.  Circumpolar today
Alt: 46.78°   Az: 22.90°   Direction: North-North-East

HR8844 is a hypergiant star of spectral class A0 in the constellation of Cepheus.

HR8844 visual magnitude is 5.84. Because of its faintness, HR8844 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 HR8844 star
DSS2 image of HR8844. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8844 during the next 10000 years (8.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 15m 31s
+74° 22’ 10”
17h 26m 02s
16h 41m 34s

J2000

23h 14m 37s
+74° 13’ 51”

Galactic Coordinates

116.38°
12.61°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR8844.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.84
Hypergiant

0.11
A0V
10125K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8844 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8844. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8844 is distant 455.31 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

139.66
455.31
-3 km/s
0.048 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO10664
SAO10664

Visibility from Your Location

HR8844 is circumpolar and transits at 07:42 UTC (altitude: 67.1°)