Star profile
Beta Musca
Hot blue starWhat is Beta Musca
Beta Muscae burns with the sharp blue of B-type stars within a small, seldom-noticed southern constellation. Some 342 light-years away, its light crosses a quiet patch of sky where there is little to compete with it: Musca is unassuming, almost a whisper between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon. That modesty of setting turns it into an unexpected beacon —a cold, precise flame in a region the eye tends to skim.
Where it is and when to see it
Beta Musca lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: 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 Beta Musca
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.04
- Distance
- 341.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 191.570° · Dec -68.108°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62322 · HD 110879
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Other stars in Musca
Musca has 31 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Musca2.69
- Delta Musca3.61
- Lambda Musca3.63
- Gamma Musca3.84
- Epsilon Musca4.06
- Mu Musca4.75
- Eta Musca4.79
- HIP 648204.86