G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Nasti

Nasti is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Major 178 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,771 K, and it shines at 1.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 8.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 178 years ago.

178 lybrightness mag 8.20G0

Also catalogued as HD 68988 · HIP 40687

5,771 K

temperature

8.20

apparent magnitude

1.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

178 years

at light speed from Earth

1.00×

as hot as the Sun

1.36×

the Sun's light output

4.52

absolute magnitude

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NastiG-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 8.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa 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.