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public  Vrontoú, Greece Vrontoú, Greece  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/Athens
Sunrise: 6:12 
Transit: 13:35 
Sunset: 20:59
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HR3426

Below the horizon.  Rise: 12:15 | Tran: 14:46 | Set: 17:16
Alt: -35.81°   Az: 119.54°   Direction: East-South-East

HR3426 is a bright giant star of spectral class A6 in the constellation of Vela.

HR3426 visual magnitude is 4.14. Because of its moderate brightness, HR3426 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 HR3426 star
DSS2 image of HR3426. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3426 during the next 100000 years (-10.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 13.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 38m 32s
-43° 04’ 46”
17h 00m 01s
01h 38m 33s

J2000

08h 37m 38s
-42° 59’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

262.05°
-1.14°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3426.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.14
Bright giant

-4.08
A6II
8932K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3426 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3426. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3426 is distant 1,436.12 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 19 kilometers per second.

440.53
1,436.12
19 km/s
-0.006 arcsec/y
0.008"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO220204
SAO220204

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR3426 rise, transit and set times from Vrontoú, Greece are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Athens):

Azimuth: 133.1°
Max altitude: 6.7°
Azimuth: 226.9°