F-type star · yellow-white star

Muphrid

Muphrid is a yellow-white star in the constellation Boötes 37.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,047 K, and it shines at 9.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 37 years ago.

37.2 lybrightness mag 2.68G0IV

Also catalogued as Eta Boo · HR 5235 · HD 121370 · HIP 67927 · Gliese Gl 534

6,047 K

temperature

2.68

apparent magnitude

9.59× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

37 years

at light speed from Earth

1.05×

as hot as the Sun

9.59×

the Sun's light output

2.40

absolute magnitude

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MuphridF-type

Sky regionBoötesthis direction

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Bright stars in Boötes

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.