K-type star · orange
Muscida
Muscida is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 179 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,117 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 179 years ago.
Also catalogued as Omicron UMa · HR 3323 · HD 71369 · HIP 41704
5,117 K
temperature
3.35
apparent magnitude
120× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
179 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
120×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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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.