F-type star · yellow-white star

Nu¹ Col

Nu¹ Col is a yellow-white star in the constellation Columba 128 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,325 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 128 years ago.

128 lybrightness mag 6.15F0IV

Also catalogued as HR 1926 · HD 37430 · HIP 26412

7,325 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

4.68× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

128 years

at light speed from Earth

1.27×

as hot as the Sun

4.68×

the Sun's light output

3.17

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionColumbathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.