Star profile
Nu 2 Draco
What is Nu 2 Draco
Nu-2 Draconis forms, together with its twin Nu-1, one of the most famous double stars of the northern sky, separable even with decent binoculars within the body of the Dragon. It lies 99 light-years away and is itself a spectroscopic binary on a 38-day orbit, with two chemically peculiar Am stars. Arab astronomers counted it among the Mother Camels. The visual pair is not gravitationally bound: they travel together because they share an origin.
Where it is and when to see it
Nu 2 Draco lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 2 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.86
- Distance
- 99.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 263.067° · Dec 55.173°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85829 · HD 159560
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- 18 Draco4.84
- HIP 820204.84
- HIP 518084.86
- 19 Draco4.88
- Nu 1 Draco4.89