List of stars in Musca - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Constellation

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Musca
Musca
Musca is one of the minor southern constellations. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 in Amsterdam by...

, sorted by decreasing brightness.

Name	B Bayer designation A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...	G. Gould designation Gould designations for stars are similar to Flamsteed designations in the way that they number stars within a constellation in increasing order of right ascension. Each star is assigned an integer , followed by " G. " , and then the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in...	HD Henry Draper Catalogue The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension , published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the...	HIP	vis. mag. Apparent magnitude The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere...	abs. mag. Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. it is also the apparent magnitude a star would have if it were 32.6 light years away from Earth...	Dist. (ly)	Sp. class Stellar classification In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure...	Notes
α Mus Alpha Muscae Alpha Muscae is a Class B2, third-magnitude star in the constellation Musca.This hot class B subgiant shines from a distance of 306 light years at a luminosity of 4,520 times that of the Sun from a blue-white surface with a fairly well determined temperature of 21,900 kelvins, so hot that most of...	α	45	109668	61585	2.69	−2.17	306	B2IV-V	β Cep variable Beta Cephei variable Beta Cephei variables are variable stars which exhibit variations in their brightness due to pulsations of the stars' surfaces. The point of maximum brightness roughly corresponds to the maximum contraction of the star. Typically, Beta Cephei variables change in brightness by 0.01 to 0.3...
β Mus Beta Muscae Beta Muscae is a 3rd-magnitude star in the constellation Musca, the second brighest star in the constellation....	β	51	110879	62322	3.04	−1.86	311	B2V
δ Mus Delta Muscae Delta Muscae , often catalogued as HD 112985, is a spectroscopic binary star system and the closest to the Earth in the southern hemisphere constellation of Musca at a distance of approximately 27.8 parsecs . The main star is classified as a giant star with an orange tint...	δ	54	112985	63613	3.61	1.39	90.8	K2III	Binary star Binary star A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star, comes, or secondary...
λ Mus Lambda Muscae Lambda Muscae , often catalogued HD 102249 or HIP 57363, is the fourth brightest star in the southern hemisphere constellation of Musca . Lambda Muscae visibly makes up the far end of the tail of the visual Musca constellation...	λ	15	102249	57363	3.68	0.66	128	A7III
γ Mus Gamma Muscae Gamma Muscae is a star in the constellation of Musca, or the Fly. As a Bayer object in the constellation it is one of the brightest, and thus most visible, stars....	γ	44	109026	61199	3.84	−1.14	324	B5V
ε Mus	ε	35	106849	59929	4.06	−0.77	302	M5III
μ Mus	μ	16	102584	57581	4.75	−0.86	432	K4III
η Mus	η	59	114911	64661	4.79	−0.68	405	B8V
		62	115211	64820	4.86	−2.94	1185	K2Ib/II
		18	103079	57851	4.89	−0.19	338	B4V	Binary star
		17	102839	57696	4.98	−3.27	1455	G5Ib
GT Mus		12	101379	56862	5.01	−1.17	561	G2III + A	Double system
ι¹ Mus	ι¹	66	116244	65468	5.04	0.85	225	K0III
		4	99104	55597	5.09	−0.73	475	B5V	Double system with HD 99103.
ζ² Mus	ζ²	38	107566	60320	5.15	0.09	336	Am	Double system
		29	105340	59151	5.17	−0.47	438	K2II/III
		25	104878	58884	5.34	0.25	339	A0V
θ Mus	θ	56	113904	64094	5.44	−12.17	~7000	WC6 + O9.5I	Triple system
		5	99264	55657	5.55	−1.61	883	B2IV-V
		52	111315	62608	5.55	−0.49	526	G8Ib/II
67 G. Mus		67	116458	65522	5.65	−0.12	464	Ap
ζ¹ Mus	ζ¹	39	107567	60329	5.73	0.31	396	K0III	Double system
		43	108970	61181	5.88	0.78	341	K1III
		7	100382	56287	5.89	1.09	298	K1IIICN...
		22	104600	58720	5.89	1.01	308	B9V
		58	114570	64466	5.91	1.20	285	A0V(n)
		57	114371	64390	5.92	2.70	144	F3IV/V	Double system
		53	112219	63165	5.93	−0.72	698	G8III
LS Mus		55	113120	63688	5.93	−2.49	1575	B1.5IIIne
		11	101162	56727	5.94	0.80	348	K0III
		27	105151	59050	5.95	−0.25	566	G8/K0III	Binary star
		64	115439	64994	6.04	0.37	445	K3III
S Mus		30	106111	59551	6.05	−2.44	1630	F6Ib	δ Cep variable
		34	106797	59898	6.06	1.00	335	A0V
		61	115149	64790	6.06	3.11	127	F5V
		65	115967	65289	6.06	−0.74	746	B6V	Binary star
		6	99872	55979	6.09	−0.74	758	B3V
		70	117025	65783	6.09	1.36	288	A2m
BO Mus			109372	61404	6.11	−1.33	1003	M6II/III
		73	118344	66574	6.11	0.47	438	K3III
		50	110716	62212	6.16	−2.71	1940	F6Ia
EZ Mus		69	116890	65755	6.17	−0.48	698	B8V	α² CVn variable
		36	107301	60183	6.20	1.22	323	B9V
		33	106676	59851	6.21	1.16	333	A0V
KY Mus		47	109867	61703	6.22	−11.39	108667	B1Ia
		28	105138	59046	6.23	−2.58	1884	G3Ib
		2	98672	55308	6.26	0.20	532	B9.5/A0V
FH Mus		48	110020	61796	6.26	1.09	353	B8V
		42	108054	60601	6.29	2.89	156	G8/K0IV
		26	105071	59003	6.30			B8Ia-Iab
R Mus		49	110311	61981	6.31	−2.55	1929	F7Ib	δ Cep variable
			113919	64117	6.34	−1.09	1000	M1III
		40	107773	60417	6.36	2.83	166	K0IV-V
		72	117651	66152	6.36	1.21	349	A0V
		60	114912	64682	6.37	1.51	306	K2/K3III
		19	103482	58085	6.38	3.20	141	F2IV
		3	98695	55350	6.41	−0.42	758	B4V
		23	104570	58706	6.41	0.86	421	K1III
		24	104752	58810	6.44	−0.81	921	G6III
		1	98671	55332	6.46	0.59	486	A0V
		46	109857	61738	6.46	−0.40	769	B8Vn
		13	101805	57092	6.48	3.80	112	G1V
			105822	59389	6.48	−0.82	939	K0/K1III
ι² Mus	ι²	68	116579	65628	6.62	0.71	495	B9V
HD 100546 HD 100546 \|HD 100546 is a star 337.3 LY from Earth. It is orbited by an approximately 20 Mj planet at 6.5 AU.-HD 100546 B:Evidence for a planetary companion to HD 100546 was gathered using the UVES echelle spectrograph at the VLT in Chile. This confirms other data indicating a planetary companion...		8	100546	56379	6.70		337	B9Vne	has an unconfirmed planet (b)
HD 111232 HD 111232 HD 111232 is a yellow main-sequence star in the constellation of Musca. It has magnitude 7.61 and has the distance of 95 light years away from Earth. It has mass 78% that of the Sun. Since 2003, it has been known to have a planet....			111232	62534	7.61	5.31	94	G8V	has a planet Extrasolar planet An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars... (b HD 111232 b HD 111232 b is an extrasolar planet that orbits almost 2 AU with a mass of at least 6.8 times that of Jupiter. This planet was discovered in the La Silla Observatory by Michel Mayor using the CORALIE spectrograph on 30 June 2003, along with six other planets, including HD 41004 Ab, HD 65216 b, HD... )

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