A-type star · white star
3 Pup
3 Pup is a white star in the constellation Puppis. Its surface is about 8,486 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 231,206,479× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 3.94A2Iab
Also catalogued as HR 2996 · HD 62623 · HIP 37677
8,486 K
temperature
3.94
apparent magnitude
231,206,479× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
231,206,479×
the Sun's light output
-16.06
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.