A-type star · white star

Nu Ser

Nu Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,686 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 4.32A0/A1V

Also catalogued as HR 6446 · HD 156928 · HIP 84880

9,686 K
temperature
4.32
apparent magnitude
63.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0/A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
63.27×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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Nu SerA-type
Sky regionSerpensthis direction
StarOmicron Ser34 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.