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public  Decatur, United States Decatur, United States  ⓘ
TimezoneAmerica/Chicago
Sunrise: 5:30 
Transit: 12:53 
Sunset: 20:17
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1 Puppis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 11:43 | Tran: 15:54 | Set: 20:09
Alt: -18.61°   Az: 111.98°   Direction: East-South-East

1 Puppis is a variable and double supergiant star of spectral class K3 in the constellation of Puppis.

1 Puppis visual magnitude is 4.59. Because of its moderate brightness, 1 Puppis 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 1 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 1 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 1 Puppis during the next 10000 years (-2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 4.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 44m 34s
-28° 28’ 23”
17h 55m 22s
01h 39m 56s

J2000

07h 43m 32s
-28° 24’ 39”

Galactic Coordinates

243.88°
-2.32°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 1 Puppis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.59
Supergiant

-2.79
K3I
3608K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 1 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 1 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

1 Puppis is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 1 Puppis double sysyem:

4.59
13.49
8.9
26.2 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

1 Puppis is distant 976.05 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 33 kilometers per second.

299.40
976.05
33 km/s
-0.014 arcsec/y
0.025"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO174391
SAO174391

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 1 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Decatur, United States are the following (all times relative to the local timezone America/Chicago):

Azimuth: 118.5°
Max altitude: 21.7°
Azimuth: 241.5°