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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:06 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:47
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HR3476

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -58.75°   Az: 107.32°   Direction: East-South-East

HR3476 is a hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Vela.

HR3476 visual magnitude is 5.16. Because of its faintness, HR3476 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 HR3476 star
DSS2 image of HR3476. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3476 during the next 100000 years (3.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and 6.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

08h 44m 27s
-49° 54’ 55”
15h 21m 04s
00h 05m 32s

J2000

08h 43m 40s
-49° 49’ 22”

Galactic Coordinates

268.11°
-4.49°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3476.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.16
Hypergiant

-3.18
B0III
13585K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3476 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3476. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3476 is distant 1,516.28 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 28 kilometers per second.

465.12
1,516.28
28 km/s
0.002 arcsec/y
0.004"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO220361
SAO220361

Visibility from Your Location

HR3476 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK