K-type star · orange dwarf
Mu¹ Pav
Mu¹ Pav is an orange dwarf in the constellation Pavo 239 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,665 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 239 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7603 · HD 188584 · HIP 98478
4,665 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
23.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
239 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
23.42×
the Sun's light output
1.43
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.