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public  Guanhaiwei, China Guanhaiwei, China  ⓘ
TimezoneAsia/Shanghai
Sunrise: 4:59 
Transit: 11:58 
Sunset: 18:58
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3 Puppis

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:06 | Tran: 12:49 | Set: 17:32
Alt: 15.04°   Az: 222.51°   Direction: South-West

3 Puppis is a supergiant star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Puppis.

3 Puppis visual magnitude is 3.96. Because of its moderate brightness, 3 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 3 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 3 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 3 Puppis during the next 100000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 44m 49s
-29° 01’ 01”
03h 13m 03s
10h 57m 53s

J2000

07h 43m 48s
-28° 57’ 16”

Galactic Coordinates

244.38°
-2.54°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.96
Supergiant

-26.04
A2I
8321K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 3 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 3 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

3 Puppis is distant 32,600,000.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 25 kilometers per second.

10,000,000.00
32,600,000.00
25 km/s
0.002 arcsec/y
0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO174400
SAO174400

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 3 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Guanhaiwei, China are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Asia/Shanghai):

Azimuth: 119.0°
Max altitude: 30.8°
Azimuth: 241.0°