Nu

Its story

Nu Mensae lives in the Table, that unusual constellation Lacaille invented in honor of the South African mountain from which he charted the southern sky. It is the only constellation with an earthly geographical name, and there shines this yellow-white F-type star roughly 170 light-years away, in the most southern corner of the sky, almost glued to the south celestial pole. A quiet light on the imagined table of the heavens.