Star profile
Nu Phoenicis
Nearby starWhat is Nu Phoenicis
Nu Phoenicis shines in the constellation of the Phoenix, the mythical bird reborn from fire that Dutch navigators sketched into the southern sky at the close of the sixteenth century. It is a yellow-white F-type star only 49.3 light-years away, near enough to be counted a neighbour. It belongs to the spectral family of many stars surveyed for planets: warm, steady, of mass close to the Sun's and calm enough to preserve rocky discs.
Where it is and when to see it
Nu Phoenicis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 Phoenicis
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.97
- Distance
- 49.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 18.796° · Dec -45.532°
- Catalogue
- HIP 5862 · HD 7570
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Other stars in Phoenix
Phoenix has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnkaaAlpha Phoenicis2.40
- Beta Phoenicis3.32
- Gamma Phoenicis3.41
- HIP 1166024.74
- Lambda 1 Phoenicis4.76
- HIP 90954.82
- Phi Phoenicis5.12
- Pi Phoenicis5.13