B-type star · blue-white star

Mu Ser

Mu Ser is a blue-white star in the constellation Serpens 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,598 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.

170 lybrightness mag 3.54A0V

Also catalogued as HR 5881 · HD 141513 · HIP 77516

10,598 K
temperature
3.54
apparent magnitude
90.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
90.36×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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Mu SerB-type
Sky regionSerpensthis direction
StarHR 58756.7 ly
Star36 Ser7.5 ly
StarYed Prior18 ly
StarUnukalhaistar
StarEta Serstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Serpens
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.