QY Puppis

QY Puppis is a K-type supergiant star in the constellation of Puppis. With a radius of, it is on the smaller end of the largest known stars. A variable star, its apparent magnitude varies from 6.24 to 6.71, making it very faintly visible to the naked eye under ideal observing conditions, when it is at its brightest.

Properties

In 1981, Armando Arellano Ferro published an article stating that the star, then called HD 63302, might be a variable star. It was given its variable star designation, QY Puppis, in 1985. QY Puppis has been classified in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars as a semiregular variable star of type SRD. QY Puppis has a temperature of 4,251 K, and has expanded to a radius of. It is approximately 60 million years old, with a mass of.