Star profile
Mu Pictor
Hot blue starWhat is Mu Pictor
Mu Pictoris is a blue-white binary some 757 light-years away: its primary is a B9 Be star, possibly somewhat evolved and spinning so fast that it flattens itself. It pulses photometrically every 0.397 days, a period likely matching its rotation. A younger sister of Beta Pictoris in the same Easel, quiet but rapid in its spin.
Where it is and when to see it
Mu Pictor lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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 Pictor
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 756.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 97.993° · Dec -58.754°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31137 · HD 46860
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Other stars in Pictor
Pictor has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Pictor3.24
- Beta Pictor3.85
- Gamma Pictor4.50
- Iota Pictor5.58
- Nu Pictor5.60
- HIP 284845.65
- HIP 304635.78
- HIP 282875.81