List of stars in Musca
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This is the list of notable star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...

s in the constellation
Constellation
In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

 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...

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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...

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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 RA
Right ascension
Right ascension is the astronomical term for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system. The other coordinate is the declination.-Explanation:...

Dec
Declination
In astronomy, declination is one of the two coordinates of the equatorial coordinate system, the other being either right ascension or hour angle. Declination in astronomy is comparable to geographic latitude, but projected onto the celestial sphere. Declination is measured in degrees north and...

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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...

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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...

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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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