B-type star · blue-white star

Alp Mus

315 lybrightness mag 2.69B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 4798 · HD 109668 · HIP 61585

13,033 K

temperature

2.69

apparent magnitude

684× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

315 years

at light speed from Earth

2.26×

as hot as the Sun

684×

the Sun's light output

-2.24

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Alp MusB-type

Sky regionMuscathis direction

Nearest stars

Zet1Mus →14 ly apart
Eps Mus →18 ly apart
Zet2Mus →19 ly apart
Gam Mus →19 ly apart
HR 4669 →22 ly apart
HR 4692 →22 ly apart

Bright stars in Musca

Bet Mus →mag 3.0
Del Mus →mag 3.6
Lam Mus →mag 3.6
Gam Mus →mag 3.8
Eps Mus →mag 4.1
Mu Mus →mag 4.8
Eta Mus →mag 4.8
Iot1Mus →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.7To 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.