Star profile
Nu Chamaeleon
What is Nu Chamaeleon
Nu Chamaeleontis is a yellow star 184 light-years away, in one of the southernmost constellations of the sky, invisible from nearly all of Europe. The Chameleon is a small, quiet region peppered with dark clouds where young stars are still being born. Here Nu shines with a solar tone, a nearby neighbour in cosmic terms, set against the backstage of a stellar nursery that has not yet gone quiet.
Where it is and when to see it
Nu Chamaeleon lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Nu Chamaeleon
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.43
- Distance
- 184.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 146.585° · Dec -76.776°
- Catalogue
- HIP 47956 · HD 85396
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Other stars in Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Chamaeleon4.05
- Gamma Chamaeleon4.11
- Beta Chamaeleon4.24
- Kappa Chamaeleon5.04
- Zeta Chamaeleon5.07
- Iota Chamaeleon5.34
- Eta Chamaeleon5.46
- Delta 1 Chamaeleon5.46