B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Eri
Nu Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 675 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,831 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,000× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 675 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1463 · HD 29248 · HIP 21444
13,831 K
temperature
3.93
apparent magnitude
1,000× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
675 years
at light speed from Earth
2.40×
as hot as the Sun
1,000×
the Sun's light output
-2.65
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.