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public  Musile di Piave, Italy Musile di Piave, Italy  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/Rome
Sunrise: 5:21 
Transit: 13:11 
Sunset: 21:01
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Felis - HR3923

Above the horizon.  Rise: 12:30 | Tran: 17:05 | Set: 21:41
Alt: 10.40°   Az: 131.60°   Direction: South-West

Felis, also designated as , is a giant star of spectral class M1 in the constellation of Hydra.

Felis visual magnitude is 4.94. Because of its moderate brightness, Felis 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 Felis - HR3923 star
DSS2 image of Felis. The red arrow shows the motion of Felis during the next 10000 years (-7.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and -6.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 56m 04s
-19° 07’ 50”
20h 35m 28s
06h 31m 33s

J2000

09h 54m 52s
-19° 00’ 33”

Galactic Coordinates

255.24°
27.09°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.94
Giant

-1.74
M1III
3691K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

Felis is distant 705.63 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 50 kilometers per second.

216.45
705.63
50 km/s
-0.047 arcsec/y
-0.037"/y

Alternative Designations

Felis
SAO155588
SAO155588

Visibility from Your Location

Today's Felis - HR3923 rise, transit and set times from Musile di Piave, Italy are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Rome):

Azimuth: 109.1°
Max altitude: 25.2°
Azimuth: 250.9°