G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Mu² Cnc
Mu² Cnc is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cancer 76.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,808 K, and it shines at 3.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 76 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3176 · HD 67228 · HIP 39780
5,808 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
3.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
76 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
3.58×
the Sun's light output
3.46
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.