G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

9 Pup

53.8 lybrightness mag 5.16G2V

Also catalogued as HR 3064 · HD 64096 · HIP 38382 · Gliese Gl 291A

5,968 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
2.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
54 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
2.05×
the Sun's light output
4.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.