A-type star · white star
Nu Pic
Nu Pic is a white star in the constellation Pictor 157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,852 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 157 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2320 · HD 45229 · HIP 30342
7,852 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
11.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
157 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
11.67×
the Sun's light output
2.18
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.