B-type star · blue-white star

Nu For

371 lybrightness mag 4.68B9.5p (Si)

Also catalogued as HR 612 · HD 12767 · HIP 9677

12,610 K

temperature

4.68

apparent magnitude

151× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5p (Si)

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

371 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

151×

the Sun's light output

-0.60

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Nu ForB-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 727 →37 ly apart
HR 453 →45 ly apart
56 Cet →48 ly apart
Lam1For →52 ly apart
Mu For →53 ly apart
HR 441 →58 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3
Pi For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.