F-type star · yellow-white star

Nu² Col

Nu² Col is a yellow-white star in the constellation Columba 133 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,453 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 133 years ago.

133 lybrightness mag 5.28F5V

Also catalogued as HR 1935 · HD 37495 · HIP 26460 · Gliese Gl 209.1

6,453 K

temperature

5.28

apparent magnitude

11.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

133 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

11.20×

the Sun's light output

2.23

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionColumbathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.