F-type star · yellow-white star
Mu¹ Cyg
Mu¹ Cyg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cygnus 72.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,335 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 73 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8309 · HD 206826 · HIP 107310 · Gliese Gl 836.6A
6,335 K
temperature
4.49
apparent magnitude
6.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
73 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
6.89×
the Sun's light output
2.75
absolute magnitude
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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.