A-type star · white star

Bet Mic

482 lybrightness mag 6.06A1IV

Also catalogued as HR 7979 · HD 198529 · HIP 102989

9,777 K

temperature

6.06

apparent magnitude

71.78× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

482 years

at light speed from Earth

1.69×

as hot as the Sun

71.78×

the Sun's light output

0.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Bet MicA-type

Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7909 →37 ly apart
HR 7931 →52 ly apart
HR 7801 →65 ly apart
6 PsA →75 ly apart
24 Cap →77 ly apart
HR 7991 →90 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Gam Mic →mag 4.7
Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Eta Mic →mag 5.5

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Microscopium

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.