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HD 44594 is a star in the southern constellation Puppis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.64 so it can be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere under good viewing conditions. Based upon parallax measurements it is located at a distance of about 82 light-years (25 parsecs) from the Earth giving it an absolute magnitude of 4.56.Measurement of the star’s spectrum show it to match a stellar classification of G1.5V which is close to the Sun’s spectral class of G2V.