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HR3948

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -28.30°   Az: 166.17°   Direction: South-South-East

HR3948 is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Carina.

HR3948 visual magnitude is 6.58. Because of its faintness, HR3948 is not visible to the naked eye.

Image of HR3948 star
DSS2 image of HR3948. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3948 during the next 1000 years (-2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 1.40 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

09h 57m 56s
-64° 36’ 39”
22h 02m 26s
08h 00m 23s

J2000

09h 57m 15s
-64° 29’ 21”

Galactic Coordinates

285.51°
-7.68°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for HR3948.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.58
Hypergiant

0.71
K0III
4451K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3948 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3948. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

HR3948 is distant 486.57 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 45 kilometers per second.

149.25
486.57
45 km/s
-0.13 arcsec/y
0.084"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO250760
SAO250760

Visibility from Your Location

HR3948 is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK