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HR3908

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:01 | Tran: 0:35 | Set: 5:05
Alt: 4.74°   Az: 235.54°   Direction: South-West

HR3908 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Hydra.

HR3908 visual magnitude is 6.08. Because of its faintness, HR3908 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 HR3908 star
DSS2 image of HR3908. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3908 during the next 10000 years (4.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -11.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 53m 11s
-16° 39’ 12”
03h 56m 12s
13h 49m 24s

J2000

09h 51m 59s
-16° 32’ 04”

Galactic Coordinates

252.72°
28.36°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3908.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.08
Hypergiant

0.66
K0
4649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3908 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3908. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3908 is distant 394.67 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 5 kilometers per second.

121.07
394.67
5 km/s
0.026 arcsec/y
-0.067"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO155553
SAO155553

Visibility from Your Location

Today's HR3908 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 106.7°
Max altitude: 21.9°
Azimuth: 253.3°