QW Puppis
# QW Puppis

QW Puppis (QW Pup) is a class F3V (yellow-white dwarf) star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.49 and it is approximately 69.5 light years away based on parallax.

It is a Gamma Doradus variable, ranging from 4.5 to 4.47 magnitude with a period of 0.96 days. With a mass of 1.5 $M_☉$ and an age of 1.6 billion years, it is about halfway through its main sequence lifetime.

