B-type star · blue-white star

Gamma Mus

Gamma Mus is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 325 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,630 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 251× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 325 years ago.

325 lybrightness mag 3.84B5V

Also catalogued as HR 4773 · HD 109026 · HIP 61199

12,630 K
temperature
3.84
apparent magnitude
251× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
325 years
at light speed from Earth
2.19×
as hot as the Sun
251×
the Sun's light output
-1.15
absolute magnitude
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Gamma MusB-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarAlpha Mus19 ly
StarZeta¹ Mus22 ly
StarHR 476923 ly
StarDelta Musstar
StarLambda Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.8To 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.