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HR3426

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -51.43°   Az: 100.58°   Direction: 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 31s
-43° 04’ 41”
15h 48m 10s
00h 26m 42s

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 Hertzsprungā€“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

HR3426 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK