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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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26 Hydrae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 12:55 | Tran: 17:51 | Set: 22:47
Alt: 20.12°   Az: 144.91°   Direction: South-East

26 Hydrae is a double giant star of spectral class G8 in the constellation of Hydra.

26 Hydrae visual magnitude is 4.79. Because of its moderate brightness, 26 Hydrae 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 26 Hydrae star
DSS2 image of 26 Hydrae. The red arrow shows the motion of 26 Hydrae during the next 10000 years (-5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 2.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 20m 59s
-12° 05’ 00”
21h 45m 58s
07h 06m 58s

J2000

09h 19m 46s
-11° 58’ 29”

Galactic Coordinates

243.1°
25.49°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.79
Giant

-0.17
G8III
4917K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 26 Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 26 Hydrae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

26 Hydrae 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 26 Hydrae double sysyem:

4.79
12.29
7.5
3.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

26 Hydrae is distant 319.61 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

98.04
319.61
-2 km/s
-0.03 arcsec/y
0.015"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO155096
SAO155096

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 26 Hydrae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 102.1°
Max altitude: 26.4°
Azimuth: 257.9°