F-type star · yellow-white star

10 Pup

10 Pup is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,091 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,055 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 516× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,091 years ago.

1,091 lybrightness mag 5.69F2IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 3073 · HD 64238 · HIP 38427

7,055 K

temperature

5.69

apparent magnitude

516× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,091 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

516×

the Sun's light output

-1.93

absolute magnitude

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10 PupF-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.