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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:57 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:56
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3 Puppis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 13:32 | Tran: 16:34 | Set: 19:37
Alt: -3.17°   Az: 224.72°   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’ 00”
03h 33m 49s
11h 18m 38s

J2000

07h 43m 48s
-28° 57’ 16”

Galactic Coordinates

244.38°
-2.54°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 3 Puppis.

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 Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 119.0°
Max altitude: 9.5°
Azimuth: 241.0°