- Mu-1 Scorpii (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
MU-1 SCO (Mu-1 Scorpii). In the crowded Milky Way the stars can fool you. In middle of the curve of Scorpius, the Scorpion, are two apparent naked-eye double stars, Zeta Sco and Mu Sco, both of which are made just of line-of-sight coincidences. The real fooler is Mu.
- Mu1 Scorpii (Wikipedia)
Mu1 Scorpii (μ1 Scorpii, abbreviated Mu1 Sco, μ1 Sco) is a binary star system in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is about magnitude 3, making it one of the brighter members of Scorpius. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance of this system from the Sun is roughly 500 light-years (150 parsecs). This system is a member of the Scorpius–Centaurus association, the nearest OB association of co-moving stars to the Sun.