Mu Telescopii

Mu Telescopii (μ Telescopii) is a yellow-white hued star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. With an apparent visual magnitude of +6.30, it is near the limit of stars that can be viewed with the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 20.18 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 162 light years from the Sun.

This is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F5 V. It is chromospherically active. The star is about 2.3 billion years old with 1.3 times the mass of the Sun. It is radiating three times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,542 K.

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Category:F-type main-sequence stars
Telescopii, Mu
Category:Telescopium (constellation)
Category:Durchmusterung objects
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