K-type star · orange

20 Pup

20 Pup is an orange in the constellation Puppis 870 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,590 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 625× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 870 years ago.

870 lybrightness mag 4.99G5Ib/II

Also catalogued as HR 3229 · HD 68752 · HIP 40259

4,590 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
625× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
870 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
625×
the Sun's light output
-2.14
absolute magnitude
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20 PupK-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
Star21 Pup29 ly
StarHD 63696110 ly
StarHR 3189110 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.