F-type star · yellow-white star
Nu Per
Nu Per is a yellow-white star in the constellation Perseus 557 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,750 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 788× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 557 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1135 · HD 23230 · HIP 17529
6,750 K
temperature
3.77
apparent magnitude
788× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
557 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
788×
the Sun's light output
-2.39
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.