B-type star · blue-white star

Omicron Pup

Omicron Pup is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,092 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,860× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,418 years ago.

1,418 lybrightness mag 4.40B1IV:nne

Also catalogued as HR 3034 · HD 63462 · HIP 38070

11,092 K

temperature

4.40

apparent magnitude

2,860× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1IV:nne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,418 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

2,860×

the Sun's light output

-3.79

absolute magnitude

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Omicron PupB-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.4To 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.