F-type star · yellow-white star

Nusakan

Nusakan is a yellow-white star in the constellation Corona Borealis 112 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,343 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 112 years ago.

112 lybrightness mag 3.66F0p

Also catalogued as Beta CrB · HR 5747 · HD 137909 · HIP 75695

7,343 K

temperature

3.66

apparent magnitude

35.16× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

112 years

at light speed from Earth

1.27×

as hot as the Sun

35.16×

the Sun's light output

0.98

absolute magnitude

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NusakanF-type

Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction

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Bright stars in Corona Borealis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Borealis

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.