K-type star · orange

Mu² Gru

Mu² Gru is an orange in the constellation Grus 265 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,917 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 265 years ago.

265 lybrightness mag 5.11G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8488 · HD 211202 · HIP 109973

4,917 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
52.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
265 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
52.10×
the Sun's light output
0.56
absolute magnitude
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Mu² GruK-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarMu¹ Gru9.5 ly
StarNu Gru26 ly
StarLambda Gru26 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Grus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.