B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Dor
Nu Dor is a blue-white star in the constellation Dorado 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 300 years ago.
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
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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.