F-type star · yellow-white star

18 Pup

73.0 lybrightness mag 5.53F7V

Also catalogued as HR 3202 · HD 68146 · HIP 40035 · Gliese Gl 297.2A

6,444 K

temperature

5.53

apparent magnitude

2.68× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

73 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

2.68×

the Sun's light output

3.78

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

18 PupF-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3578 →15 ly apart
Tureis →16 ly apart
HR 3430 →16 ly apart
Gliese Gl 291B →19 ly apart
9 Pup →20 ly apart
1 Hya →20 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.