F-type star · yellow-white star
8 Pup
8 Pup is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 246 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,967 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 246 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3063 · HD 64077 · HIP 38372
6,967 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
14.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
246 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
14.05×
the Sun's light output
1.98
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.