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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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υ Orionis (upsilon Orionis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 9:29 | Tran: 14:51 | Set: 20:12
Alt: 7.64°   Az: 111.96°   Direction: East-South-East

υ Orionis is a hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Orion.

υ Orionis visual magnitude is 4.62. Because of its moderate brightness, υ Orionis is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of υ Orionis (upsilon Orionis) star
DSS2 image of υ Orionis. The red arrow shows the motion of υ Orionis during the next 100000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 33m 09s
-07° 17’ 04”
19h 28m 17s
01h 01m 27s

J2000

05h 31m 55s
-07° 18’ 05”

Galactic Coordinates

210.44°
-20.98°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for υ Orionis (upsilon Orionis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.62
Hypergiant

-3.76
B0V
15229K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

υ Orionis is distant 1,545.02 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

473.93
1,545.02
17 km/s
-0.001 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

υ Orionis
(upsilon Orionis)
SAO132222
SAO132222

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 97.3°
Max altitude: 31.2°
Azimuth: 262.7°