K-type star · orange

Mu Mus

Mu Mus is an orange in the constellation Musca 430 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,761 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 430 years ago.

430 lybrightness mag 4.75K4III

Also catalogued as HR 4530 · HD 102584 · HIP 57581

3,761 K
temperature
4.75
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
430 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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Mu MusK-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 461525 ly
StarLambda Cen31 ly
StarHR 440135 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.