K-type star · orange

Tau Pup

Tau Pup is an orange in the constellation Puppis 182 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,295 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 181× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 182 years ago.

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
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Tau PupK-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 25945.9 ly
StarHR 238417 ly
StarHR 267218 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
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.