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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:05 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:48
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HR2947

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:36 | Tran: 16:53 | Set: 21:11
Alt: -30.99°   Az: 81.21°   Direction: East

HR2947 is a main-sequence star of spectral class B6 in the constellation of Puppis.

HR2947 visual magnitude is 6.72. Because of its faintness, HR2947 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR2947 star
DSS2 image of HR2947. The red arrow shows the motion of HR2947 during the next 10000 years (-3.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 40m 14s
-18° 44’ 19”
16h 13m 50s
23h 54m 05s

J2000

07h 39m 07s
-18° 40’ 45”

Galactic Coordinates

234.92°
1.61°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR2947.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.72
Main-sequence

-0.47
B6V
11573K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR2947 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR2947. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR2947 is distant 893.15 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 36 kilometers per second.

273.97
893.15
36 km/s
-0.021 arcsec/y
-0.026"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153195
SAO153195

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR2947 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 108.7°
Max altitude: 19.8°
Azimuth: 251.3°