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Pi Puppis

Pi Puppis, Latinized from π Puppis, also named Ahadi, is the second-brighteststar in the southern constellation of Puppis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of about 2.7, so it can be viewed with the naked eye at night. Parallax measurements yield an estimated distance of roughly 810 light-years (250 parsecs) 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° from the brighter primary.