F-type star · yellow-white star

Mu Cap

Mu Cap is a yellow-white star in the constellation Capricornus 86.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,000 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.

86.8 lybrightness mag 5.08F3IV

Also catalogued as HR 8351 · HD 207958 · HIP 108036 · Gliese Gl 838.5

7,000 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
5.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
87 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
5.73×
the Sun's light output
2.95
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Capricornus

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.