G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Nu² Lup
Nu² Lup is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Lupus 48.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,819 K, and it shines at 1.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 48 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5699 · HD 136352 · HIP 75181 · Gliese Gl 582
5,819 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
1.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
48 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
1.05×
the Sun's light output
4.80
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.