A-type star · white star

Mu PsA

Mu PsA is a white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,498 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 136 years ago.

136 lybrightness mag 4.50A2V

Also catalogued as HR 8431 · HD 210049 · HIP 109285

9,498 K
temperature
4.50
apparent magnitude
23.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
23.94×
the Sun's light output
1.40
absolute magnitude
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Mu PsAA-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.