B-type star · blue-white star
Beta Mus
Beta Mus is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 342 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,077 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 581× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 342 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4844 · HD 110879 · HIP 62322
13,077 K
temperature
3.04
apparent magnitude
581× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
342 years
at light speed from Earth
2.27×
as hot as the Sun
581×
the Sun's light output
-2.06
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.