B-type star · blue-white star

Mu 2Cru

407 lybrightness mag 5.08B5Vne

Also catalogued as HR 4899 · HD 112091 · HIP 63005

11,391 K

temperature

5.08

apparent magnitude

126× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Vne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

407 years

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

126×

the Sun's light output

-0.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Mu 2CruB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

Mu 1Cru →7.2 ly apart
HR 4885 →17 ly apart
HR 4848 →24 ly apart
Lam Cru →27 ly apart
HD 112381 →27 ly apart
HR 4834 →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.