K-type star · orange

Nu¹ CMa

Nu¹ CMa is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,140 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 351 years ago.

351 lybrightness mag 5.71G8/K0III+..

Also catalogued as HR 2423 · HD 47138 · HIP 31564

5,140 K

temperature

5.71

apparent magnitude

52.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0III+..

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

351 years

at light speed from Earth

0.89×

as hot as the Sun

52.38×

the Sun's light output

0.55

absolute magnitude

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Nu¹ CMaK-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.