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ο Puppis (omicron Puppis)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 4:00 | Tran: 7:27 | Set: 10:55
Alt: -5.13°   Az: 126.44°   Direction: South-East

ο Puppis is a variable and double hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Puppis.

ο Puppis visual magnitude is 4.5. Because of its moderate brightness, ο Puppis is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of ο Puppis (omicron Puppis) star
DSS2 image of ο Puppis. The red arrow shows the motion of ο Puppis during the next 100000 years (-15.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and 10.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

07h 49m 07s
-26° 00’ 00”
19h 47m 44s
03h 36m 51s

J2000

07h 48m 05s
-25° 56’ 13”

Galactic Coordinates

242.25°
-0.21°

Finder Chart

Finder chart ο Puppis (omicron Puppis) star
Simplified finder chart for ο Puppis (omicron Puppis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.5
Hypergiant

-4.90
B0V
10795K

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

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

Star System Properties

ο Puppis is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the ο Puppis double sysyem:

4.5
12.5
8
27 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ο Puppis is distant 2,469.70 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

757.58
2,469.70
15 km/s
-0.009 arcsec/y
0.006"/y

Alternative Designations

ο Puppis
(omicron Puppis)
SAO174558
SAO174558

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 116.0°
Max altitude: 12.5°
Azimuth: 244.0°