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18 Puppis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:41 | Tran: 15:27 | Set: 20:13
Alt: -16.29°   Az: 268.05°   Direction: West

18 Puppis is a double main-sequence star of spectral class F6 in the constellation of Puppis.

18 Puppis visual magnitude is 5.54. Because of its faintness, 18 Puppis 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 18 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 18 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 18 Puppis during the next 1000 years (-4.18 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.02 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 11m 51s
-13° 52’ 33”
06h 35m 19s
14h 47m 11s

J2000

08h 10m 39s
-13° 47’ 57”

Galactic Coordinates

234.57°
10.61°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 18 Puppis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.54
Main-sequence

3.78
F6V
6435K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 18 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 18 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

18 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 18 Puppis double sysyem:

5.54
12.24
6.7
93 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

18 Puppis is distant 73.31 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 38 kilometers per second.

22.49
73.31
38 km/s
-0.251 arcsec/y
0.061"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153924
SAO153924
Gl 297.2A

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 18 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 103.9°
Max altitude: 24.6°
Azimuth: 256.1°