NW Puppis

NW Puppis (NW Pup), also known as υ² Puppis, is a star in the constellation Puppis. Located around 760 light-years distant, it shines with a luminosity approximately 1108 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of 15000 K. Anamarija Stankov ruled this star out as a Beta Cephei variable.

Neither component of this double is given a letter in Lacaille's catalogue or the British Association star catalogue. Gould gave them the designations (latin letter) v¹ and v² Puppis, but these are rarely used. Lacaille applied the Greek letter υ to the star now called υ Carinae. The designation υ² first appeared in several catalogues at the end of the 19th century.