G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Mu CrA
Mu CrA is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Corona Australis 396 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,339 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 396 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7050 · HD 173540 · HIP 92226
5,339 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5/G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
396 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.22
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.