A-type star · white star

Mu¹ Cha

Mu¹ Cha is a white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 375 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,709 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 375 years ago.

375 lybrightness mag 5.53A0IV

Also catalogued as HR 3983 · HD 87971 · HIP 49065

9,709 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
70.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
375 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
70.79×
the Sun's light output
0.23
absolute magnitude
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Mu¹ ChaA-type
Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction
StarHR 450726 ly
StarDelta² Cha29 ly
StarHR 459530 ly
StarAlpha Chastar
StarGamma Chastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Chamaeleon
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.