B-type star · blue-white star

Nu Dor

300 lybrightness mag 5.06B8V

Also catalogued as HR 2221 · HD 43107 · HIP 29134

11,122 K

temperature

5.06

apparent magnitude

69.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

300 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

69.63×

the Sun's light output

0.24

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Nu DorB-type

Sky regionDoradothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2662 →26 ly apart
HR 2408 →26 ly apart
Eta1Dor →27 ly apart
Pi 2Dor →31 ly apart
HR 2345 →46 ly apart
HD 59640 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Dorado

Alp Dor →mag 3.3
Bet Dor →mag 3.8
Gam Dor →mag 4.3
Del Dor →mag 4.3
Zet Dor →mag 4.7
The Dor →mag 4.8
Eta2Dor →mag 5.0
Eps Dor →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.