K-type star · orange

Sigma Pup

Sigma Pup is an orange in the constellation Puppis 194 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,780 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 194 years ago.

194 lybrightness mag 3.25K5III SB

Also catalogued as HR 2878 · HD 59717 · HIP 36377

3,780 K
temperature
3.25
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
194 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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Sigma PupK-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To 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.