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Pi Puppis (Pi Pup π Puppis π Pup) is the second brightest star in the southern constellation of Puppis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 2.733 so it can be viewed with the naked eye at night. Parallax measurements yield an estimated distance of roughly 810 light-years (250 pc) from the Earth. This is a double star with a magnitude 6.86 companion at an angular separation of 0.72 arcsecond and a position angle of 148°.The spectrum of Pi Puppis matches a stellar classification of K3 Ib.
