Star profile
Nu Telescopium
What is Nu Telescopium
Nu Telescopii is a discreet white star in Telescopium, the constellation Lacaille named in honour of the instrument that had revealed so many of the sky's secrets. Its motion through space matches that of the open cluster IC 2391: it likely was born there and still drifts in its current, a stray sister of a distant group.
Where it is and when to see it
Nu Telescopium lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: 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 Telescopium
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.33
- Distance
- 161.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 297.005° · Dec -56.363°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97421 · HD 186543
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Other stars in Telescopium
Telescopium has 27 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Telescopium3.49
- Zeta Telescopium4.10
- Epsilon Telescopium4.52
- Delta 2 Telescopium5.07
- Rho Telescopium5.17
- Kappa Telescopium5.18
- HIP 896055.36
- HIP 947125.38