B-type star · blue-white star

Mu Cen

506 lybrightness mag 3.47B2IV-Ve

Also catalogued as HR 5193 · HD 120324 · HIP 67472

12,902 K

temperature

3.47

apparent magnitude

857× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-Ve

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

506 years

at light speed from Earth

2.24×

as hot as the Sun

857×

the Sun's light output

-2.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Mu CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Phi Cen →25 ly apart
HR 5136 →28 ly apart
Chi Cen →30 ly apart
HR 5294 →38 ly apart
HD 126093 →61 ly apart
HR 5134 →69 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.