B-type star · blue-white star

Mu Col

Mu Col is a blue-white star in the constellation Columba 1,331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 15,680 K, about 2.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,229× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,331 years ago.

1,331 lybrightness mag 5.18B1IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 1996 · HD 38666 · HIP 27204

15,680 K

temperature

5.18

apparent magnitude

1,229× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,331 years

at light speed from Earth

2.72×

as hot as the Sun

1,229×

the Sun's light output

-2.87

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionColumbathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.