K-type star · orange

Nu Gru

285 lybrightness mag 5.47G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8552 · HD 212953 · HIP 110936

4,843 K

temperature

5.47

apparent magnitude

43.17× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

285 years

at light speed from Earth

0.84×

as hot as the Sun

43.17×

the Sun's light output

0.76

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Nu GruK-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Mu 1Gru →19 ly apart
Mu 2Gru →26 ly apart
Del1Gru →33 ly apart
Ups Gru →37 ly apart
HR 8771 →45 ly apart
HR 8437 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Grus

Alnair →mag 1.7
Tiaki →mag 2.1
Aldhanab →mag 3.0
Eps Gru →mag 3.5
Iot Gru →mag 3.9
Del1Gru →mag 4.0
Zet Gru →mag 4.1
Del2Gru →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.