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20 Puppis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 12:53 | Tran: 17:28 | Set: 22:02
Alt: 4.76°   Az: 236.96°   Direction: West-South-West

20 Puppis is a bright giant star of spectral class G5 in the constellation of Puppis.

20 Puppis visual magnitude is 4.99. Because of its moderate brightness, 20 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 20 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 20 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 20 Puppis during the next 10000 years (-2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 14m 30s
-15° 51’ 58”
04h 01m 08s
12h 15m 38s

J2000

08h 13m 19s
-15° 47’ 17”

Galactic Coordinates

236.63°
10.11°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.99
Bright giant

-2.89
G5II
4581K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 20 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 20 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

20 Puppis is distant 1,230.19 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.

377.36
1,230.19
17 km/s
-0.013 arcsec/y
-0.004"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153993
SAO153993

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 20 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 105.9°
Max altitude: 22.7°
Azimuth: 254.1°