F-type star · yellow-white star

Mu Tel

Mu Tel is a yellow-white star in the constellation Telescopium 112 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,625 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 112 years ago.

112 lybrightness mag 6.29F5V

Also catalogued as HR 7393 · HD 183028 · HIP 95932

6,625 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

3.14× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

112 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

3.14×

the Sun's light output

3.61

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Telescopium

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.