Mu-2

Its story

Mu-2 Gruis is a yellow G-type giant about 265 light-years away, set in the long neck of the southern Crane. It shares its small asterism with the optical companion Mu-1, forming a pair visible to the unaided eye for a calm observer beneath a clean sky. The two are not physically bound: their alignment is geometric, one of those coincidences of perspective that the sky offers to the patient gaze.