B-type star · blue-white star

Nu And

Nu And is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 618 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,216 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 482× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 618 years ago.

618 lybrightness mag 4.53B5V SB

Also catalogued as HR 226 · HD 4727 · HIP 3881

12,216 K
temperature
4.53
apparent magnitude
482× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
618 years
at light speed from Earth
2.12×
as hot as the Sun
482×
the Sun's light output
-1.86
absolute magnitude
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Nu AndB-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.