A-type star · white star
Lambda Mus
Lambda Mus is a white star in the constellation Musca 127 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,486 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 127 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4520 · HD 102249 · HIP 57363
8,486 K
temperature
3.63
apparent magnitude
46.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
127 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
46.77×
the Sun's light output
0.68
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.