Nu Orionis (HIP 29038)

Nu Orionis is a blue main-sequence star in the constellation Orion. At 514 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 4.42. Nu Orionis is a component of a multiple-star system. The iron abundance of Nu Orionis is -0.05 (89.1% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 29.1 km/s relative to the Sun.

Sky position: RA 6h 7.6m, Dec +14° 46.2'

Common designations: Nu Orionis, 67 Orionis, HIP 29038, HD 41753

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Brightest stars in Orion:
(list all)

15

|    3.77

)   Sigma Orionis

16

|    4.06

)   Omicron-2 Orionis

17

|    4.09

)   Phi-2 Orionis

18

|    4.12

)   Mu Orionis

19

|    4.13

)   29 Orionis

20

|    4.20

)   A Orionis

21

|    4.35

)   Pi-2 Orionis

22

|    4.39

)   Phi-1 Orionis

23

|    4.39

)   Chi-1 Orionis

24

|    4.42

)   Nu Orionis

25

|    4.45

)   Xi Orionis

26

|    4.46

)   Rho Orionis

27

|    4.47

)   Pi-6 Orionis

28

|    4.50

)   Omega Orionis

29

|    4.53

)   HR 2113

30

|    4.58

)   42 Orionis

31

|    4.59

)   Psi Orionis

Location of Nu Orionis circled
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Galactic Orbit of Nu Orionis
(compared to the Sun)

Eccentricity: 4.9% vs. 16.0%

Angle φ : -156.8° vs. 26.0°

Semi-major axis : 7,227 pc vs. 8,686 pc

Semi-minor axis: 7,218 pc vs. 8,574 pc

Focus-to-center: 357 pc vs. 1,388 pc

Semilatus rectum : 7,209 pc vs. 8,464 pc

Perigalacticon: 6,870 pc vs. 7,297 pc

Apogalacticon: 7,584 pc vs. 10,074 pc
 
Some Tabulated XHIP Data for Nu Orionis
(see also: SIMBAD)

Astrometry
 2007A&A...474..653V
  Position Proper Motion
Right Ascension: 91.89300744° ±0.30 mas 5.90 ±0.30 mas/yr.
Declination: 14.76852309° ±0.17 mas -21.00 ±0.30 mas/yr.
     
Galactic Longitude: 194.80639198° 21.23 mas/yr.
Galactic Latitude: -2.72121422° -5.02 mas/yr.

Parallax: 6.32 ± 0.33 mas

Spectrography

Spectral Type: B4V 2009A&A...501..297Z.

Radial Velocity: 24.10 ±2.70 km/s [D rating] 2006AstL...32..759G.
This star is a spectroscopic binary with an unsolved orbit.

Iron Abundance [Fe/H]: -0.05 dex  1992ApJ...387..673G.
 


Photometry
 
band magnitude Abs. Mag.
U 3.60 -2.39
B 4.26 -1.73
V 4.42 -1.57
R
I 4.56 -1.43
J 5.00 -0.99
H 4.82 -1.17
K 4.85 -1.14

  B-V: -0.16       V-I: -0.14

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 157.71 pc (5.2% margin of error)

Galactocentric distance: 7,552 pc

Transverse velocity: 16.3 km/s

3D heliocentric position and motion:

toward:   

Galactic center Galactic rotation North Galactic Pole
Position ( X, Y, Z) -152.3 pc -40.3 pc -7.5 pc
Velocity (U, V, W) -19.0 km/s -21.5 km/s -4.9 km/s

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