F-type star · yellow-white star

51Mu Cap

86.8 lybrightness mag 5.08F3IV

Also catalogued as HR 8351 · HD 207958 · HIP 108036 · Gliese Gl 838.5

7,000 K

temperature

5.08

apparent magnitude

5.73× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

87 years

at light speed from Earth

1.21×

as hot as the Sun

5.73×

the Sun's light output

2.95

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

51Mu CapF-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

Nearest stars

37 Cap →12 ly apart
HR 8581 →18 ly apart
59Ups Aqr →21 ly apart
42 Cap →22 ly apart
53 Aqr →24 ly apart
11 Aqr →24 ly apart

Bright stars in Capricornus

Deneb Algedi →mag 2.9
Dabih →mag 3.0
Algedi →mag 3.6
Nashira →mag 3.7
34Zet Cap →mag 3.8
23The Cap →mag 4.1
18Ome Cap →mag 4.1
16Psi Cap →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Capricornus

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.