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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:09 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:44
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HR3276

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:57 | Tran: 17:46 | Set: 21:36
Alt: 14.35°   Az: 165.72°   Direction: South-South-East

HR3276 is a double hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Puppis.

HR3276 visual magnitude is 6.13. Because of its faintness, HR3276 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 HR3276 star
DSS2 image of HR3276. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3276 during the next 10000 years (-1.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 21m 33s
-23° 00’ 22”
22h 59m 48s
07h 21m 21s

J2000

08h 20m 27s
-22° 55’ 28”

Galactic Coordinates

243.61°
7.63°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3276.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.13
Hypergiant

-0.57
K0
4649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3276 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3276. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

HR3276 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 HR3276 double sysyem:

6.13
13.13
7
6.7 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3276 is distant 711.79 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.

218.34
711.79
26 km/s
-0.011 arcsec/y
0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO175634
SAO175634

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR3276 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 113.0°
Max altitude: 15.5°
Azimuth: 247.0°