A-type star · white star
Nu Ari
Nu Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,419 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 337 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 773 · HD 16432 · HIP 12332
8,419 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
61.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
61.43×
the Sun's light output
0.38
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.