Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:13 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:39
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
wb_twilight   (Nautical Twilight)  
Planets Visible Tonight
Planets Visible Tonight
 • 
What's Visible Now • Tonight Sky
Search  close
All Constellations » Carina » 

HR3062

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -74.67°   Az: 241.29°   Direction: West-South-West

HR3062 is a double bright giant star of spectral class G5 in the constellation of Carina.

HR3062 visual magnitude is 5.59. Because of its faintness, HR3062 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 HR3062 star
DSS2 image of HR3062. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3062 during the next 100000 years (-5.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 11.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 49m 39s
-56° 28’ 31”
10h 20m 41s
18h 10m 20s

J2000

07h 49m 06s
-56° 24’ 38”

Galactic Coordinates

269.26°
-14.91°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for HR3062.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.59
Bright giant

-1.70
G5II
4451K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3062 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3062. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR3062 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 HR3062 double sysyem:

5.59
13.59
8
6.9 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3062 is distant 934.10 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 22 kilometers per second.

286.53
934.10
22 km/s
-0.003 arcsec/y
0.007"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO235539
SAO235539

Visibility from Your Location

HR3062 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK