Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Puppis |
Right ascension | 08h 11m 21.4934s [1] |
Declination | −39° 37′ 06.7588″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.40 - 4.50 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Evolutionary stage | Supergiant |
Spectral type | K4.5 Ib [3] |
Variable type | Lc [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | 16.20 [4] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −9.072 mas/yr [1] Dec.: 3.211 mas/yr [1] |
Parallax (π) | 2.3831 ± 0.1188 mas [1] |
Distance | 1,363+62 −65 ly (418+19 −20 pc) [5] |
Details | |
Mass | 8±0.9 [6] M☉ |
Radius | 213±24 [6] R☉ |
Luminosity | 9,772 [6] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 0.73±0.02 [6] cgs |
Temperature | 3,961±125 [6] K |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
NS Puppis (NS Pup) is an irregular variable star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude varies between 4.4 and 4.5.
NS Puppis is a naked eye star, given the h1 and the Bright Star Catalogue number 3225. It was considered to be a stable star [8] [9] until 1966. [10] It was given the variable star designation NS Puppis in 1975. [11]
h2 Puppis is another luminous K-type star with almost the same visual magnitude about a degree to the southeast.
Omicron Velorum is a star in the constellation Vela. It is the brightest member of the loose naked eye open cluster IC 2391, also known as the ο Velorum Cluster.
63 Andromedae is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable star in the constellation Andromeda. Its variable star designation is PZ Andromedae. With an apparent magnitude of about 5.6, it is bright enough to be seen by naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.53 mas, it is located 382 light years away.
21 Cancri is a double star in the northern zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim, red-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.08. The star is located around 791 light years away from the Sun, based on parallax. It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 35 km/s.
V385 Andromedae is a variable star in the constellation Andromeda, about 360 parsecs (1,200 ly) away. It is a red giant over a hundred times larger than the sun. It has an apparent magnitude around 6.4, just about visible to the naked eye in ideal conditions.
NO Aurigae is a pulsating variable star in the constellation Auriga. It is an unusually-luminous asymptotic giant branch star about 3,500 light years away.
W Andromedae is a variable star in the constellation of Andromeda. It is classified as a Mira variable and S-type star, and varies from an apparent visual magnitude of 14.6 at minimum brightness to a magnitude of 6.7 at maximum brightness, with a period of approximately 397.3 days. The star is losing mass due to stellar winds at a rate of 2.79×10−7M☉/yr.
1 Camelopardalis is a double star system in the constellation Camelopardalis. Its combined apparent magnitude is 5.56 and it is approximately 800 parsecs (2,600 ly) away.
17 Persei is a single star in the northern constellation of Perseus, located about 390 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.53. This object is moving further from the Earth at a heliocentric radial velocity of +13 km/s.
QZ Puppis is a class B2.5V star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.5 and it is approximately 650 light years away based on parallax.
MX Puppis is a class B1.5IV star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude varies irregularly between magnitude 4.6 and 4.9 and it is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable. It is approximately 930 light years away based on parallax.
KQ Puppis is a spectroscopic binary located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis. A red supergiant star and a B-type main-sequence star orbit each other every 27 years. Its apparent magnitude varies between 4.82 and 5.17, making it faintly visible to the naked eye.
HD 54893, often called A Puppis is a suspected variable star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.83 and is approximately 860 light years away based on parallax.
OU Puppis is a chemically peculiar class A0 star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is about 4.9 and it is approximately 188 light-years away based on parallax.
Y Centauri or Y Cen is a semiregular variable star in the constellation of Centaurus.
42 Persei is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Perseus. It has the Bayer designation n Persei, while 42 Persei is the Flamsteed designation. The system is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.11. It is located around 93 parsecs (302 ly) distant from the Sun, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −12.4 km/s.
10 Persei is a blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus. Its apparent magnitude is 6.26 although it is slightly variable.
NW Puppis, also known as υ2 Puppis, is a star in the constellation Puppis. Located around 910 light-years distant, it shines with a luminosity approximately 1,108 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of 15,000 K. Anamarija Stankov ruled this star out as a Beta Cephei variable.
BU Crucis is a variable star in the open cluster NGC 4755, which is also known as the Kappa Crucis Cluster or Jewel Box Cluster.
MZ Puppis is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Puppis. It has a radius of 400 R☉.
R Puppis is a variable star in the constellation Puppis. It is a rare yellow hypergiant and a candidate member of the open cluster NGC 2439. It is also an MK spectral standard for the class G2 0-Ia.