B-type star · blue-white star
Iota² Mus
Iota² Mus is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 520 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,882 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.6 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 520 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5051 · HD 116579 · HIP 65628
10,882 K
temperature
6.62
apparent magnitude
49.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
520 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
49.84×
the Sun's light output
0.61
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.