B-type star · blue-white star
14 Pup
14 Pup is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,569 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 513× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,326 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3168 · HD 66834 · HIP 39524
12,569 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
513× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,326 years
at light speed from Earth
2.18×
as hot as the Sun
513×
the Sun's light output
-1.93
absolute magnitude
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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.