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public  Gvardinița, Rumania Gvardinița, Rumania  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/Bucharest
Sunrise: 5:49 
Transit: 13:31 
Sunset: 21:13
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HR9

Above the horizon.  Rise: 2:25 | Tran: 6:49 | Set: 11:10
Alt: 20.13°   Az: 199.88°   Direction: South-South-West

HR9 is a main-sequence star of spectral class A7 in the constellation of Cetus.

HR9 visual magnitude is 6.18. Because of its faintness, HR9 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 HR9 star
DSS2 image of HR9. The red arrow shows the motion of HR9 during the next 1000 years (1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.75 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 08m 08s
-22° 57’ 56”
01h 21m 08s
01h 29m 16s

J2000

00h 06m 50s
-23° 06’ 27”

Galactic Coordinates

52.21°
-79.14°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR9.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.18
Main-sequence

3.22
A7V
6989K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR9 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR9. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR9 is distant 127.39 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

39.08
127.39
3 km/s
0.1 arcsec/y
-0.045"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO166053
SAO166053

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR9 rise, transit and set times from Gvardinița, Rumania are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Bucharest):

Azimuth: 113.0°
Max altitude: 22.6°
Azimuth: 247.0°