RA 99.4403° · Dec -43.1959° · star
12 more points to reach Epic.
Nu Pup is a rare star. It lies about 371.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pup, shines at apparent magnitude 3.17 and has spectral type B8III SB.
Its spectrum reads B8III SB — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for Nu Pup in the constellation Pup. At apparent magnitude 3.17, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Nu Pup is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Nu Pup scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Giant star, Blue-white star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.