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HR3596

Above the horizon.  Rise: 17:15 | Tran: 23:10 | Set: 5:09
Alt: 16.09°   Az: 247.70°   Direction: West-South-West

HR3596 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Hydra.

HR3596 visual magnitude is 5.67. Because of its faintness, HR3596 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 HR3596 star
DSS2 image of HR3596. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3596 during the next 10000 years (-8.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 11.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 03m 15s
-00° 34’ 58”
04h 11m 00s
13h 14m 15s

J2000

09h 01m 58s
-00° 28’ 58”

Galactic Coordinates

229.68°
28.43°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3596.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.67
Hypergiant

-0.70
K0III
4409K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3596 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3596. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3596 is distant 612.78 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 73 kilometers per second.

187.97
612.78
73 km/s
-0.048 arcsec/y
0.069"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO136511
SAO136511

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR3596 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 90.6°
Max altitude: 37.9°
Azimuth: 269.4°