A-type star · white star

2 Pup

2 Pup is a white star in the constellation Puppis 254 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,932 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 254 years ago.

254 lybrightness mag 6.06A6/A7

Also catalogued as HR 3010 · HD 62864 · HIP 37843

8,932 K

temperature

6.06

apparent magnitude

19.86× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6/A7

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

254 years

at light speed from Earth

1.55×

as hot as the Sun

19.86×

the Sun's light output

1.60

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.