M-type star · red

Epsilon Mus

Epsilon Mus is a red in the constellation Musca 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,645 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 177× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.

301 lybrightness mag 4.06M5III

Also catalogued as HR 4671 · HD 106849 · HIP 59929

3,645 K
temperature
4.06
apparent magnitude
177× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
301 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
177×
the Sun's light output
-0.77
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon MusM-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 469212 ly
StarHR 466917 ly
StarAlpha Mus18 ly
StarBeta Musstar
StarDelta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.