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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:28 
Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:00
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HR926

Above the horizon.  Rise: 11:45 | Tran: 17:53 | Set: 0:05
Alt: 40.44°   Az: 177.00°   Direction: South

HR926 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Cetus.

HR926 visual magnitude is 6.05. Because of its faintness, HR926 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 HR926 star
DSS2 image of HR926. The red arrow shows the motion of HR926 during the next 10000 years (4.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

03h 05m 56s
+01° 57’ 36”
23h 50m 52s
02h 56m 48s

J2000

03h 04m 38s
+01° 51’ 48”

Galactic Coordinates

176.17°
-46.77°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR926.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.05
Hypergiant

0.97
K0III
4649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR926 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR926. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR926 is distant 337.82 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

103.63
337.82
1 km/s
0.028 arcsec/y
-0.003"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO110945
SAO110945

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR926 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 88.0°
Max altitude: 40.5°
Azimuth: 272.0°