F-type star · yellow-white star
Mu Vir
Mu Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 59.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,961 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5487 · HD 129502 · HIP 71957 · Gliese GJ 9491
6,961 K
temperature
3.87
apparent magnitude
8.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
8.23×
the Sun's light output
2.56
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.