G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
11 Pup
11 Pup is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Puppis 522 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,541 K, and it shines at 466× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 522 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3102 · HD 65228 · HIP 38835
5,541 K
temperature
4.20
apparent magnitude
466× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7/F8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
522 years
at light speed from Earth
0.96×
as hot as the Sun
466×
the Sun's light output
-1.82
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.