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🌎  Observing from: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
🌅 Sunrise: 6:38  ☀️ Transit: 13:03  🌅 Sunset: 19:28

HR3984

HR3984 is a hypergiant star in the constellation of Antlia.

HR3984 visual magnitude is 6.36. Because of its reltive faintness, HR3984 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.

The table below summarizes the key facts about HR3984:

6.36
Hypergiant
HR3984 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change].

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR3984

HR3984 is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern emisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR3984 are provided in the following table:

10h 08m 01s
-37° 20’ 00”
270.36°
14.99°
Antlia

The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR3984 in the sky:

Finder chart HR3984 star
Simplified finder chart for HR3984.

Visibility of HR3984 from your location

Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's HR3984 rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 127.3°
Max altitude: 1.2°
Azimuth: 232.7°
HR3984 is below the horizon from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Digitized Sky Survey image of HR3984

The image below is a photograph of HR3984 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR3984 is -0.011 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and 0.003 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.

Image of HR3984 star
DSS2 image of HR3984. The red arrow shows the motion of HR3984 during the next 10000 years (-1.83 arcmin in Right Ascension and 0.50 arcmin in declination);

Distance of HR3984 from the Sun and relative movement

HR3984 is distant 589.51 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 1 kilometers per second.

180.83 pc
589.51 ly
1 km/s
-0.011 arcsec/year
0.003 arcsec/year

Spectral properties of HR3984

HR3984 belongs to spectral class K0 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a hypergiant star.

0.07
K0III
4791K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR3984 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of HR3984. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Alternative designations of HR3984

SAO201081
SAO201081