F-type star · yellow-white star
Mu Aqr
Mu Aqr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,307 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 157 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7990 · HD 198743 · HIP 103045
7,307 K
temperature
4.73
apparent magnitude
25.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
157 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
25.97×
the Sun's light output
1.31
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.