K-type star · orange

Tau Pup

182 lybrightness mag 2.94K0III...

Also catalogued as HR 2553 · HD 50310 · HIP 32768

4,295 K

temperature

2.94

apparent magnitude

181× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

182 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

181×

the Sun's light output

-0.79

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau PupK-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2594 →5.9 ly apart
HR 2384 →17 ly apart
HR 2672 →18 ly apart
HR 2746 →21 ly apart
HR 2204 →24 ly apart
HR 2661 →27 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Pipit →mag 3.2
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 2.9To 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.