Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
Search  close
All Constellations » Puppis » 

HR2960

Above the horizon.  Rise: 12:00 | Tran: 16:11 | Set: 20:23
Alt: 17.10°   Az: 162.45°   Direction: South-South-East

HR2960 is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Puppis.

HR2960 visual magnitude is 5.93. Because of its faintness, HR2960 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 HR2960 star
DSS2 image of HR2960. The red arrow shows the motion of HR2960 during the next 10000 years (1.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 41m 20s
-19° 43’ 15”
22h 48m 42s
06h 30m 03s

J2000

07h 40m 13s
-19° 39’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

235.9°
1.36°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR2960.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.93
Hypergiant

-0.79
K0
4389K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR2960 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR2960. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR2960 is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR2960 double sysyem:

5.93
11.13
5.2
8.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR2960 is distant 719.65 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

220.75
719.65
-3 km/s
0.007 arcsec/y
0.011"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO153225
SAO153225

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR2960 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 109.7°
Max altitude: 18.8°
Azimuth: 250.3°