B-type star · blue-white star

Pipit

371 lybrightness mag 3.17B8III SB

Also catalogued as Nu Pup · HR 2451 · HD 47670 · HIP 31685

11,624 K

temperature

3.17

apparent magnitude

610× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

371 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

610×

the Sun's light output

-2.11

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

PipitB-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2444 →34 ly apart
HR 2626 →37 ly apart
HR 2178 →38 ly apart
HR 2666 →38 ly apart
HR 2262 →49 ly apart
HR 2411 →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9
11 Pup →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.2To 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.