G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

9 Pup

9 Pup is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Puppis 53.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,968 K, and it shines at 2.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 54 years ago.

53.8 lybrightness mag 5.16G2V

Also catalogued as HR 3064 · HD 64096 · HIP 38382 · Gliese Gl 291A

5,968 K

temperature

5.16

apparent magnitude

2.05× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

54 years

at light speed from Earth

1.03×

as hot as the Sun

2.05×

the Sun's light output

4.07

absolute magnitude

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9 PupG-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

StarGliese Gl 291B0.55 ly

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Puppis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.