M-type star · red

1 Pup

1 Pup is a red in the constellation Puppis 773 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,605 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 687× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 773 years ago.

773 lybrightness mag 4.63K5III

Also catalogued as HR 2993 · HD 62576 · HIP 37648

3,605 K

temperature

4.63

apparent magnitude

687× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

773 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

687×

the Sun's light output

-2.24

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.