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TimezoneEurope/London
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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:05
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HR8928

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:41 | Tran: 14:08 | Set: 19:35
Alt: 29.16°   Az: 153.88°   Direction: South-South-East

HR8928 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Aquarius.

HR8928 visual magnitude is 6.39. Because of its faintness, HR8928 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 HR8928 star
DSS2 image of HR8928. The red arrow shows the motion of HR8928 during the next 10000 years (-2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

23h 32m 18s
-06° 08’ 58”
22h 28m 59s
22h 01m 18s

J2000

23h 31m 01s
-06° 17’ 17”

Galactic Coordinates

76.78°
-61.72°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR8928.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.39
Hypergiant

-2.97
K0
4194K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR8928 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR8928. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR8928 is distant 2,432.84 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 13 kilometers per second.

746.27
2,432.84
13 km/s
-0.013 arcsec/y
-0.036"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO146748
SAO146748

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR8928 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 96.1°
Max altitude: 32.4°
Azimuth: 263.9°