B-type star · blue-white star

48Nu Eri

675 lybrightness mag 3.93B2III SB

Also catalogued as HR 1463 · HD 29248 · HIP 21444

13,831 K

temperature

3.93

apparent magnitude

1,000× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2III SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

675 years

at light speed from Earth

2.40×

as hot as the Sun

1,000×

the Sun's light output

-2.65

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

48Nu EriB-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

45 Eri →45 ly apart
HR 1488 →51 ly apart
HD 27660 →57 ly apart
HR 1450 →60 ly apart
HR 1312 →86 ly apart
HR 1574 →88 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
16Tau4Eri →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.