Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:01 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:52
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
Search  close
All Constellations » Cassiopeia » 

HR8854

Above the horizon.  Circumpolar today
Alt: 32.06°   Az: 332.58°   Direction: North-North-West

HR8854 is a variable hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

HR8854 visual magnitude is 6.53. Because of its faintness, HR8854 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR8854 star
DSS2 image of HR8854. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8854 during the next 10000 years (-4.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 17m 32s
+62° 06’ 06”
08h 13m 53s
07h 31m 26s

J2000

23h 16m 26s
+61° 57’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

112.02°
1.12°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR8854.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.53
Hypergiant

-2.11
B0V
7938K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8854 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8854. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8854 is distant 1,743.32 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

534.76
1,743.32
-15 km/s
-0.026 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO20531
SAO20531

Visibility from Your Location

HR8854 is circumpolar and transits at 07:20 UTC (altitude: 79.4°)