B-type star · blue-white star

Mu 1Cru

414 lybrightness mag 4.03B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 4898 · HD 112092 · HIP 63003

13,121 K

temperature

4.03

apparent magnitude

344× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

414 years

at light speed from Earth

2.27×

as hot as the Sun

344×

the Sun's light output

-1.49

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Mu 1CruB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

Mu 2Cru →7.2 ly apart
HR 4885 →16 ly apart
HR 4848 →31 ly apart
HD 112381 →33 ly apart
Lam Cru →34 ly apart
HR 4834 →35 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.