16-Sgr (Star)

R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.

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From Fairfield , 16-Sgr is visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 01:18, when it reaches an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 03:23, 28° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight around 04:11, 27° above your southern horizon.

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Name 16-Sgr

Object type Star

Other names

16-Sgr
16 Sagittarii
HR 6823^[1]
HD 167263
HIP 89440^[5]
TYC 6272-89-1^[4]
Gaia EDR3- 4094031138050641408^[6]

Position

Right ascension:	18^h15^m12^s ^[6]
Declination:	−20°23'16" ^[6]
Constellation:	Sagittarius
Magnitude:	5.98 (V) ^[3] 5.94 (BT) ^[2] 5.97 (VT) ^[2] 5.90 (G) ^[6] 5.90 (BP) ^[6] 5.85 (RP) ^[6]
B-V Color (mag):	-0.03
Proper motion (speed):	3.2 mas/yr^[1]
Proper motion (pos ang):	130.2°

Sources

^[1]	Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit et al. 1991)

^[2]	The Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA 1997)

^[3]	The Tycho Catalogue (ESA 1997)

^[4]	The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog et al. 2000)

^[5]	Hipparcos, the new reduction of the raw data (van Leeuwen 2007)

^[6]	Gaia EDR3 (Gaia Collaboration 2020)

Visibility from Fairfield

All times shown in Fairfield local time.

Fairfield

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41.14°N
73.26°W
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