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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 6:33 
Transit: 12:55 
Sunset: 19:17
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29 Hydrae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 5:46 | Tran: 10:56 | Set: 16:07
Alt: 11.24°   Az: 121.01°   Direction: East-South-East

29 Hydrae is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Hydra.

29 Hydrae visual magnitude is 6.54. Because of its faintness, 29 Hydrae is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of 29 Hydrae star
DSS2 image of 29 Hydrae. The red arrow shows the motion of 29 Hydrae during the next 10000 years (-4.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 28m 27s
-09° 19’ 54”
20h 06m 19s
05h 34m 46s

J2000

09h 27m 14s
-09° 13’ 24”

Galactic Coordinates

241.94°
28.63°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 29 Hydrae star
Simplified finder chart for 29 Hydrae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.54
Main-sequence

-1.47
A2V
9542K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 29 Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 29 Hydrae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

29 Hydrae is distant 1,304.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 30 kilometers per second.

400.00
1,304.00
30 km/s
-0.029 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO136861
SAO136861

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 29 Hydrae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 99.3°
Max altitude: 29.2°
Azimuth: 260.7°