B-type star · blue-white star

Nu¹ Lyr

Nu¹ Lyr is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 1,310 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,569 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 596× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,310 years ago.

1,310 lybrightness mag 5.93B3IV

Also catalogued as HR 7100 · HD 174585 · HIP 92398

12,569 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
596× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,310 years
at light speed from Earth
2.18×
as hot as the Sun
596×
the Sun's light output
-2.09
absolute magnitude
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Nu¹ LyrB-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lyra

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.