Star profile

Mu 1 Grus

3D likeness based on its real data · class G · ~5,500 K

What is Mu 1 Grus

Mu-1 Gruis shines with a golden tone in the long neck of the Crane, about 275 light-years from the Sun. It is a yellow G-type giant that has already moved beyond core hydrogen fusion and swollen until it gleams several dozen times brighter than our star. Together with its companion Mu-2 it forms a visual pair that early southern navigators used as a quiet pointer toward the south celestial pole — still today a pleasure for anyone scanning the sky with binoculars on a dark night.

Where it is and when to see it

Mu 1 Grus lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.

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Astronomical data for Mu 1 Grus

Constellation: Grus
Apparent magnitude: 4.79
Distance: 274.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 333.904° · Dec -41.347°
Catalogue: HIP 109908 · HD 211088

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Other stars in Grus

Grus has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 39 stars in Grus