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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 47° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 13° N.
It ranks no. 10 in brightness among the 19 stars of Chamaeleon in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Chamaeleon, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 180 years ago.
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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