B-type star · blue-white star
Naos
Naos is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,084 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 15,515 K, about 2.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12,555× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,084 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta Pup · HR 3165 · HD 66811 · HIP 39429
15,515 K
temperature
2.21
apparent magnitude
12,555× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
O5IAf
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,084 years
at light speed from Earth
2.69×
as hot as the Sun
12,555×
the Sun's light output
-5.40
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.