Puppis Pup
Puppis is one of the 88 constellations, covering 674 square degrees of the sky (20th largest). It is highest at midnight in January and best in the evening sky in February and March.
10 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Pup |
|---|---|
| Size | 674 square degrees (20th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 7h 39m, −33° |
| Highest at midnight | January (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: February and March) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 37° above the horizon; from 50° N, to about 7°. |
| Pages here | 10 objects |
Nebulae
2Star clusters
3Stars
4Other objects
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| M47 · NGC 2422 | Open star cluster | 4.4 | 19.8′ |
| NGC 2477 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 5.8 | 18.6′ |
| M46 · NGC 2437 | Open star cluster | 6.1 | 21′ |
| M93 · NGC 2447 | Open star cluster | 6.2 | 15′ |
| NGC 2546 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.3 | 16.5′ |
| NGC 2520 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.5 | 9.3′ |
| NGC 2539 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.5 | 12.3′ |
| NGC 2423 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.7 | 11.7′ |
| NGC 2439 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.9 | 8.7′ |
| NGC 2571 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 7 | 7.2′ |
| Mel071 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 7.1 | 14.4′ |
| NGC 2482 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 7.3 | 6.6′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits