F-type star · yellow-white star
Nu¹ Lup
Nu¹ Lup is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lupus 117 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,322 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 117 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5698 · HD 136351 · HIP 75206 · Gliese GJ 3901
6,322 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
11.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
117 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
11.30×
the Sun's light output
2.22
absolute magnitude
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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.