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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:03 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:50
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9 Puppis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:17 | Tran: 17:02 | Set: 21:48
Alt: -48.94°   Az: 31.55°   Direction: North-North-East

9 Puppis is a double hypergiant star of spectral class G0 in the constellation of Puppis.

9 Puppis visual magnitude is 5.17. Because of its faintness, 9 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 9 Puppis star
DSS2 image of 9 Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of 9 Puppis during the next 1000 years (-1.03 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 52m 56s
-13° 57’ 52”
13h 22m 58s
21h 15m 55s

J2000

07h 51m 46s
-13° 53’ 53”

Galactic Coordinates

232.27°
6.62°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.17
Hypergiant

4.06
G0V
5968K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 9 Puppis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 9 Puppis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

9 Puppis 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 9 Puppis double sysyem:

5.17
5.87
0.7
0.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

9 Puppis is distant 54.35 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 18 kilometers per second.

16.67
54.35
-18 km/s
-0.062 arcsec/y
-0.34"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153500
SAO153500
Gl 291 A

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 9 Puppis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 104.0°
Max altitude: 24.6°
Azimuth: 256.0°