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Its story
Nu Pictoris is a white double 157 light-years away, in the Painter's Easel, one of the southern constellations Lacaille named during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1751-1753. Pictor is a quiet figure with no very bright stars, and Nu belongs to that class of lights only seen well far from cities. A painter of the sky drawn in very fine ink on a dark canvas.
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 157.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 95.733° · Dec -56.370°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30342 · HD 45229
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