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Transit: 14:20 
Sunset: 21:51
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4 Puppis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:18 | Tran: 15:23 | Set: 20:29
Alt: -36.91°   Az: 283.66°   Direction: West-North-West

4 Puppis is a hypergiant star of spectral class F0 in the constellation of Puppis.

4 Puppis visual magnitude is 5.04. Because of its faintness, 4 Puppis is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 4 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 4 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 4 Puppis during the next 10000 years (-2.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 47m 07s
-14° 37’ 39”
08h 26m 21s
16h 13m 28s

J2000

07h 45m 56s
-14° 33’ 50”

Galactic Coordinates

232.14°
5.07°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.04
Hypergiant

0.74
F0V
7276K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 4 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 4 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

4 Puppis is distant 236.23 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 2 kilometers per second.

72.46
236.23
-2 km/s
-0.012 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153372
SAO153372

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 4 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Torreiglesias, España are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Madrid):

Azimuth: 104.6°
Max altitude: 34.3°
Azimuth: 255.4°