B-type star · blue-white star

The Mus

brightness mag 5.44WC6 + O9.5I

Also catalogued as HR 4952 · HD 113904 · HIP 64094

10,556 K

temperature

5.44

apparent magnitude

58,076,442× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

WC6 + O9.5I

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.83×

as hot as the Sun

58,076,442×

the Sun's light output

-14.56

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The MusB-type

Sky regionMuscathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4972 →12,000 ly apart
HR 4806 →20,000 ly apart
Kap Cru →30,000 ly apart
HR 4887 →30,000 ly apart
HR 4876 →30,000 ly apart
HR 4653 →33,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Musca

Alp Mus →mag 2.7
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.