Its story
16 Pup has a visual magnitude of about 4.36: under a reasonably dark sky it is typically reachable with the unaided eye.
Equatorial coordinates for 16 Pup: right ascension 8h 9m 2s, declination −19° 14′ 42″ (J2000), in the region of the Puppis constellation (IAU figure Pup).
16 Pup. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 39906, HD 67797, Gaia DR3 5713807856749312512. In the SkyKeepsake Puppis (Pup) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 39906
- Right ascension
- 8h 09m 02s
- Declination
- −19° 14′ 42″
- Magnitude
- 4.36
- Distance
- ≈ 452 ly
Data: gaia-dr3