HD 63922
{{Short description|Binary star system in the constellation Puppis}}
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{{about|P Puppis|p Puppis|HD 60863}}
{{distinguish|text=ρ (rho) Puppis}}
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| name = HD 63922
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{{Location mark
|image=Puppis constellation map.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280
|label=|position=right
|mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=10|mark_link=HD 63922
|x=435|y=1098
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|caption=Location of HD 63922 (circled)
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{{Starbox observe
| epoch = J2000
| constell = Puppis
| dec = {{DEC|-46|22|23.5422}}
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{{Starbox astrometry
| radial_v = +24.00{{cite journal | last=Wilson | first=R. E. | year=1953 | title=General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities | journal=Carnegie Institute Washington D.C. Publication | publisher=Carnegie Institution for Science | bibcode=1953GCRV..C......0W | lccn=54001336 }}
| parallax = 1.98
| p_error = 0.28
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{{Starbox catalog
| names = P Puppis, CD−46°3458, CCDM J07493-4622A, GC 10576, GSC 08134-03515, HIP 38164, HR 3055, HD 63922, SAO 219035, WDS J07492-4622Aa,Ab
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{{Starbox reference
| Simbad = P+Puppis
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HD 63922 is a class B0III (blue giant) star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.11 and it is approximately 1600 light years away based on parallax.
It is a multiple star; the primary has one close companion, Ab, at 0.3" separation and magnitude 7.19, and a more distant one, B, at 59.1" and 8.79 magnitude.{{cite journal | bibcode=2001AJ....122.3466M | doi=10.1086/323920 | title=The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=122 | issue=6 | pages=3466 | year=2001 | last1=Mason | first1=Brian D. | last2=Wycoff | first2=Gary L. | last3=Hartkopf | first3=William I. | last4=Douglass | first4=Geoffrey G. | last5=Worley | first5=Charles E. | doi-access=free }} [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=B/wds/wds&WDS=07492-4622 Vizier catalog entry]
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