B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Mus

Eta Mus is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,216 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 146× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 4.79B8V

Also catalogued as HR 4993 · HD 114911 · HIP 64661

11,216 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
146× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
146×
the Sun's light output
-0.56
absolute magnitude
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Eta MusB-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 481426 ly
StarHR 509327 ly
StarBeta Mus45 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarDelta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.