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Trash star 11 EP

3 Pup

RA 115.9519° · Dec -28.9548° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Properties

absmag
-16.06
bv
0.16
constellation
Pup
mag
3.94
name
3 Pup
spect
A2Iab

About 3 Pup

3 Pup is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Pup, shines at apparent magnitude 3.94 and has spectral type A2Iab.

3 Pup is a trash star worth 11 points across 2 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for 3 Pup in the constellation Pup. At apparent magnitude 3.94, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 3 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.

Why 3 Pup is a trash star

3 Pup scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Naked-eye visible — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.