NV Puppis
{{Short description|Star in the constellation Puppis}}
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| name = NV Puppis
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{{Location mark
|image=Puppis constellation map.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280
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|mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=10|mark_link=NV Puppis
|x=592|y=830
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|caption=Location of NV Puppis (circled)
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{{Starbox observe
| epoch = J2000
| constell = Puppis
| dec = {{DEC|-36|44|02.2329}}
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{{Starbox character
| variable = γ Cas{{cite journal | bibcode=2009yCat....102025S |title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007–2013)|journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S|volume=1|display-authors=etal|last1=Samus|first1=N. N.|last2=Durlevich|first2=O. V.|year=2009}}
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{{Starbox astrometry
| radial_v = +18.60{{cite journal | last=Wilson | first=R. E. | year=1953 | title=General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities | journal=Carnegie Institute Washington D.C. Publication | publisher=Carnegie Institution for Science | bibcode=1953GCRV..C......0W | isbn=9780598216885 | lccn=54001336 }}
| parallax = 4.06
| p_error = 0.18
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{{Starbox catalog
| names = Upsilon1 Puppis, NV Pup, CD-36°3512, CCDM J07184-3645A, GC 9733, GSC 07115-03016, HIP 35363, HR 2787, HD 57150, SAO 197824, WDS J07183-3644A
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{{Starbox reference
| Simbad = NV+Puppis
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NV Puppis (NV Pup), also known as υ1 Puppis, is a class B2V (blue main-sequence) star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.67 and it is approximately 800 light years away based on parallax.
File:NVPupLightCurve.png for NV Puppis, plotted from Hipparcos data]]
It is a γ Cas variable, ranging from 4.78 to 4.58 magnitude. It is most likely an optical double with the nearby NW Puppis.{{cite journal | bibcode=2001AJ....122.3466M | doi=10.1086/323920 | title=The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=122 | issue=6 | pages=3466 | year=2001 | last1=Mason | first1=Brian D. | last2=Wycoff | first2=Gary L. | last3=Hartkopf | first3=William I. | last4=Douglass | first4=Geoffrey G. | last5=Worley | first5=Charles E. | doi-access=free }} [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-4?-source=B/wds/wds&WDS=07183-3644 Vizier catalog entry]
Neither component of this double is given a letter in Lacaille's catalogue or the British Association star catalogue.{{cite book|title=Coelum australe stelliferum ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LIo_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7|year=1763|publisher=H L Guerin & L F Delatour|pages=7–}}{{cite journal|bibcode=1845tcot.book.....B|title=The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science|journal=The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Containing the Mean Right Ascensions and North Polar Distances of Eight Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven Fixed Stars|last1=Baily|first1=Francis|year=1845}} Gould gave them the designations (Latin letter) v1 and v2 Puppis, but these are rarely used.{{cite journal|bibcode=2004yCat.4027....0K|title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: HD-DM-GC-HR-HIP-Bayer-Flamsteed Cross Index (Kostjuk, 2002)|journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: IV/27A. Originally Published in: Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences (2002)|volume=4027|last1=Kostjuk|first1=N. D.|year=2004}} Lacaille applied the Greek letter υ to the star now called υ Carinae. The designation υ1 first appeared in several catalogues at the end of the 19th century.{{cite journal | bibcode=1995yCat.5050....0H | title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991) | journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: V/50. Originally Published in: 1964BS....C......0H | volume=5050 | last1=Hoffleit | first1=D. | last2=Warren | first2=W. H. | year=1995 }}
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Category:B-type main-sequence stars