Star profile

Nu Piscium

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is Nu Piscium

An orange giant on the northern edge of Pisces, 363 light-years away in that strip of sky where the ancients saw two fish joined by a ribbon. Its warm light reaches us from a time before the first modern universities were founded, crossing a stretch of the galaxy that feels close to us today and was unreachable then. Already settled into nuclear maturity, it glows quietly among the faint stars that trace the most sprawling — and the most diluted — of the zodiacal signs.

Where it is and when to see it

Nu Piscium lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 44° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 55° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 51° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 85° S.

It ranks no. 11 in brightness among the 79 stars of Pisces in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpherg, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.

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Astronomical data for Nu Piscium

Constellation: Pisces
Apparent magnitude: 4.45
Distance: 363.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 25.358° · Dec 5.488°
Catalogue: HIP 7884 · HD 10380

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Other stars in Pisces

Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 79 stars in Pisces